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Leo

Just to be consistent, I'll stick this down here, but nobody has written much about him. Most of the information here comes from 'Here at the New Yorker' by Brendan Gill and the introduction to 'More in Sorrow', a collection of his works. There was also another great source that included testimony from his son (said that when he wrote his reviews, he would pace his bedroom in his bathrobe, chain smoking, stubbing out and relighting at the ashtrays placed at either end of the room), but unfortunately I can't remember which it was. If I ever do, I'll post it here.


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