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  • Disappearing Ink

  • The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library
  • By: Travis McDade
  • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
  • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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By: Travis McDade
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
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Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country. In October 1990, Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past 10 years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye - Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works. After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before - but Kenyon refused to let this happen.

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A maddening tale of cultural vandalism and theft

This narration is very matter of fact which might put off some but in my opinion it's needed to cut through the flim flam of the story. It's entertaining to hear the tale of a prolific book thief entrenched in the literary establishment have all their lies come to bite them, but as the narrator makes clear it's not as if any punishment can undo the damage done. It's maddening how a few people can destroy important pieces of history forever and get away with it for years.

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