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Letters Reveal Human Side of JD Salinger
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- He had a reputation as a literary recluse, but a trove of previously unseen letters written by J.D. Salinger to a British friend reveals a sociable man who took bus trips to Niagara Falls, ate fast-food hamburgers, enjoyed watching tennis and claimed always to be writing new work. The 50 letters and four postcards have been donated to a British university, which made them public Thursday on the first anniversary of the author's death at the age of 91. They show that the enigmatic writer of "The Catcher in the Rye" was an affectionate friend who enjoyed gardening, trips to the ...
How to Literally Flush $1 Million Down the Toilet
By Jordan Carr - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- J.D. Salinger's toilet is for sale on eBay for the entirely reasonable price of $1 million. Though that may not seem like such a great deal, the eBay page does note that it comes with free shipping and a 14-day money back guarantee. Whether the commode, whose availability was flagged by the Raleigh News & Observer, will fetch that price is unclear: The buyer currently has 13 pending bids, some from experienced eBay users, but so far nobody has jumped at the seven-figure "Buy It Now" price tag. There's much more to this toilet than meets the eye (what meets the eye is an ...
Is Bill Cosby Dead? No, But He'll Humor the Rumor to Push His iPhone App
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Have you heard the news? According to the Internet, Bill Cosby died Monday ... again. No, the seminal comedian and Jell-O pudding pitchman is not really dead. And no, it's not the first time that Internet rumors have posited the death of Mr. Cosby. In February, a similar claim was spread across social networking sites like Twitter, to which Cosby offered a bemused response. "As you well know, a dead person cannot rebuttal. Therefore, I am rebuttaling to tell you that when I heard the news I immediately began rebutalling and went into denial," Cosby wrote on his website on Feb. ...
J.D. Salinger: A 'Selfish Old Goat,' but Not a Perv
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyAuthor J.D. Salinger, who died in January, is once again in the news, in all his appalling glory. The Morgan Library in Manhattan has put on display Salinger's correspondence with a friend -- Michael Mitchell, the artist who drew the original illustration on Salinger's 1951 novel, "Catcher in the Rye." ...
Where We All Walk: Chapman, Hinckley, and Unintended Consequences
By James Grady - Politics DailyJ. D. Salinger's slide into that last good night sent my mind to assassins.And suddenly, it's Dec. 8, 1980, night on a New York city sidewalk where a chunky Mark Chapman draws his Hawaiian-bought Charter Arms .38 and from spitting distance blasts four out of five hollow point bullets into ex-Beatle John Lennon's back. As Lennon bleeds out on the sidewalk and Yoko Ono screams and sirens wail closer, the assassin reaches into his pocket, pulls out and reads Salinger's most famous book, Catcher In The Rye.FADE IN: Washington D.C. March 30, 1981, a cool spring day. Boyishly good looking but a ...
Letterman, Palin and Salinger Defer to Twittering Riots in Iran
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailySo much going on in the world to talk about, it's hard to choose what to discuss with my favorite WomanUp women. I'm dying to eye-roll at the Letterman/Palin win-win in the now seemingly resolved great tempest over which one of the future presidential hopeful's children was being offended/sexually harassed by the comedian, whose ratings improved during the feud. ...
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