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A 1967 correspondence led Cat Sebastian to imagine a contemporary scenario in which two sci-fi actors find more than screen chemistry.

In a career studded with literary awards, he was the author of dozens of books that grappled with his nation’s legacy of dictatorship and colonialism.

For 50 years, Patricia Finn kept to the background and told other people’s stories. Now, in “The Golden Boy,” she’s finally telling one of her own.

Considered an “author’s publisher” at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.

Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music.

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.

She was a towering figure in Soviet literature who was once silenced in a Stalinist literary purge.

Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.

After this Booker Prize finalist became seriously ill, everything seemed very real, and everything seemed to matter.

His Pulitzer-nominated book “Graven Images” inspired a reassessment of Puritan art, challenging the belief that imagery carved on headstones was meaningless.