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Bestselling Children's Author Not a Fan of Libraries

Says they are no longer relevant

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Maybe there's a scientific explanation for the sort of behavior that leads normally beloved people to suddenly veer into previously unexplored areas of misanthropy and jettison all the goodwill they've built up over a lifetime. It's not necessarily just a case of "old men yelling at clouds." The subject of this piece isn't necessarily old (although, I admit I keep moving those particular goalposts with each passing birthday) or unnecessarily coherent. He's just… so horribly, awfully, completely wrong.