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The 1951 J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye has long been one of the most controversial literary tomes, inspiring films and criminal conspiracies. John Lennon’s murderer, Marc David Chapman, carried the book at the murder and continued reading it while Lennon lay bleeding at his feet. He has said that he wished to model his life after the novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, identifying with Holden’s misanthropic world view. -snip- There have been numerous books, podcasts, and lectures positing even more outlandish schemes emanating from the pen of Jerome David Salinger. One of the most amusing was a three...

Intriquing story of AA Milne, Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.

In London, England, on January 18, 1882, A.D., an author was born. A humorist for Punch, then a playwright, then a screenwriter, this talented gentleman was a man of many genres, but you and I know him best for the children’s stories he wrote in the 1920s. He wrote about the Hundred-Acre Wood, about his son, and his son’s playmates – a spirited bear, a spiritless donkey, a wise owl and a brave young piglet. These books were a gold mine, and live on nearly a century later in books, DVDs, television series, and shelves full of licensed characters in...