Sol Yurick Gone

from The Guardian Sol Yurick obituary American novelist best known for The Warriors, a tale of gangs and street violence in New York by Eric Homberger Cast members of The Warriors, the film of Yurick’s novel, which became a cult classic. Photograph: Moviestore...

Understanding Earth 2012

from io9 The 10 Books You Absolutely Must Read to Understand the History of Earth by Annalee Newitz The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and life began oozing across its boiling, methane-saturated surface about a billion years after our planet was born. But how did...

Leave Papa’s Pussies Alone

from TODAY Cat fight pits government against Hemingway museum By A. Pawlowski, TODAY.com contributor A popular tourist attraction has lost another round in the legal battle over who is in charge of the slinky creatures with nine lives and six toes roaming its grounds....

Catcher In The Rye Still Evil

from The Telegraph UK Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum Schools in America are to drop classic books such as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and JD Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye from their curriculum in favour of ‘informational...