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John David California was the pseudonym used by Swedish book publisher Fredrik Colting when on 7 May 2009 he published 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye in the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] The book was presented as a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger , with Salinger's antihero Holden Caulfield now a 76-year-old man on the run ...
By the end of the 10-week project, there had been six known murders, 35 known shootings, four people critically wounded, at least 80 volunteers beaten and more than 1,000 people arrested.
60second Recap is an educational video project launched in September 2009 to provide 60-second video summaries and analysis of classic literature.The site provides one-minute video commentaries on plot, themes, characters, symbols, motifs, and other aspects of books commonly studied in secondary schools in North America.
Nurses, beds with railings....Something about the whole setup strikes me as uncomfortably, shall we say, symbolic. See, I've always pictured life as one of those ladders you find on playground sliding boards-a sort of ladder of years where you climb higher and higher, and then, oops! you fall over the edge and others move up behind you." [2]
Over forty years later, book bans are once again on the rise. While the ALA's preliminary data for 2024 saw a decrease in the number of overall challenges, the figure still far exceeds pre-2020 ...
The book on the Kennedy assassination refuses to stay closed, and three documentaries timed to the current anniversary help expand, or reframe, our understanding. 60 years later, JFK's ...
In The New York Times Book Review, critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert. The chief thing to say about Barthelme, beyond praise for his skill, which seems to me supererogatory, is that he is fiercely committed to ...
Commercial real estate has beaten the stock market for 25 years — but only the super rich could buy in. Here's how even ordinary investors can become the landlord of Walmart, Whole Foods or Kroger