Neal Cassady

AP EXCLUSIVE: LETTER THAT INSPIRED KEROUAC FOUND
BY JOHN ROGERS 
ASSOCIATED PRESS

  "It's been called the letter that launched a literary genre - 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950... Kerouac described it this way: 'It was the greatest piece of writing I ever saw, better'n anybody in America, or at least enough to make Melville, Twain, Dreiser, Wolfe, I dunno who, spin in their graves.' "

Bill Mauldin's cartoons to be auctioned

"Biographer Todd DePastino said Mauldin's work went beyond boosting soldier morale. It offered a glimpse into life on the front lines at a time when Americans were shielded from many of the horrors of war. His later work centered on issues still relevant today — civil rights, privacy and government overreach."
Susan Montoya Bryan
http://news.yahoo.com/bill-mauldins-cartoons-auctioned-183803483.html

Grimm brothers’ fairytales have blood and horror restored in new translation

  "Rapunzel is impregnated by her prince, the evil queen in Snow White is the princess’s biological mother, plotting to murder her own child, and a hungry mother in another story is so 'unhinged and desperate' that she tells her daughters: 'I’ve got to kill you so I can have something to eat.' Never before published in English, the first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales reveals an unsanitised version of the stories that have been told at bedtime for more than 200 years...

  "Wilhelm Grimm... 'deleted all tales that might offend a middle-class religious sensitivity'...

                                                                                      Alison Flood is a writer on guardian.co.uk/books and former news editor of the Bookseller

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/12/grimm-brothers-fairytales-horror-new-translation

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Landscape

Nevada Landscape                                                                                 M. Hill 2013

Bloody Dan Aykroyd film clip sparks homicide investigation (2013)

 Ghostbusters star Dan Aykroyd was briefly at the centre of a police investigation in Calgary 

earlier this week after murderous footage of his 1990 film flop Loose Cannons was 

unearthed at a landfill site...

A worker, who stumbled upon the images of Aykroyd standing over a bloody corpse, failed 

to recognize the actor and thought he had found evidence of a sickening crime...

"The movie should have been left in the landfill where it belongs,"(said Aykroyd).

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/31/bloody-dan-ackroyd-film-clip-sparks-police-homicide-investigation

Reading

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- More U.S. residents, especially young people, are reading literature, the first time that's happened in 25 years, the National Endowment for the Arts says.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/01/12/Survey-More-Americans-reading-literature/UPI-37781231787345/#ixzz3I0mKnC57