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On the first page of John Williams’s 1965 novel “Stoner,” the narrator tells us the book is about a man whose “colleagues, who held him in no particular esteem when he was alive, speak of him rarely now; to the older ones, his name is a reminder of the end that awaits them all, and to the younger ones, it is merely a sound which evokes no sense of the past and no identity with which they can associate themselves or their careers.” Powered By

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The book proceeds to trace the generally mundane life of a fairly unremarkable man. And now, 60 years after its publication, it’s having a surprising resurgence in popularity, especially among young readers who bandy it about on TikTok.

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