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DOWNIE: Paper Isn’t the Same

Letter from Drew Downie Paper Isn’t the Same I am curious about what happened to the paper. We have been looking forward to our weekly drive to the bakery for donuts and The Freeman’s Journal but it seems that we don’t travel in the same social circles as your writers anymore. Cute kids who learned how to tell port from starboard is a front page story? There has to be something going on in Otsego County more interesting than that…

Groff’s new novel ‘Matrix’ inspired by Marie de France

Groff’s new novel ‘Matrix’ inspired by Marie de France By CHAD G. WELCH • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Award-winning author Lauren Groff’s sixth novel “Matrix,” was released this month to rave reviews, including earning four stars from USA Today and a National Book Award nomination from The National Book Foundation. USA Today critic Steph Cha called the book “a relentless exhibition of Groff’s freakish talent,” and New York Times critic Kathryn Harrison wrote “it provides Groff a literary springboard into a…