The New Yorker: "Gavin Highly" by Janet Frame

Here's another story from New Zealander Janet Frame, who died in 2004. In this one, Gavin Highly is the town oddity, a guy who is said to have lived in a rabbit burrow and invited ferrets to tea. But now he's in a house that's about to be condemned and in order to raise money to buy a proper house, he's going to sell his books, which Highly says are worth a lot. "Gavin Highly collected and loved books. No one had every really seen these books, but hearsay had it that they were worth...