Early Addition: Book thief pleads guilty to stealing manuscripts that he cherished

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Published Mar 13, 2023

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James Ramsay

Published Mar 13, 2023

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Good Monday morning in New York City, where the West Village newspaper wars got the New Yorker treatment. Here's what else is happening:

Political donors told the Daily Beast that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is fundraising — and doing so successfully — by warning her supporters that Andrew Cuomo is going to challenge her over her Senate seat.
A fire on Saturday severely damaged the historic Camden, New Jersey house where Matin Luther King Jr. lived while he was attending seminary in nearby Chester, Pennsylvania.
Students at the King's College, a small Christian university in Manhattan, recently received eviction notices at their dorms inside a luxury apartment building in Downtown Brooklyn after the school failed to pay rent on time. (The college, which is facing major financial problems, also recently stopped offering free Chick-fil-A at weekly Bible readings.)
A former Simon & Schuster employee has pleaded guilty in New York to stealing more than 1,000 pre-publication manuscripts from writers including Sally Rooney, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan, saying he never intended to leak them and simply wanted to "cherish" them.
April 15th: That's the date they're imploding the famed Nabisco cookie factory off Route 208 in New Jersey.
The Oscars last night brought big wins for the mommies (?).
Middle managers, we see you and we appreciate you.
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