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Photo A rambling 1950 letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac that helped inspire “On the Road” will be auctioned next month by Christie’s in New York, apparently bringing to an end an 18-month legal battle over its ownership. The 16,000-word typed letter, which carries an estimate of $400,000 to $600,000, had been considered lost before it surfaced in the discarded files of Golden Goose Press, a now-defunct small San Francisco publisher, and listed for sale by a Southern California auction house in 2014. That auction was suspended after the Kerouac estate and Cassady’s children said they were the owners. Jami Cassady, a spokeswoman for the family, told The San Francisco Chronicle this week that the three parties had reached “an amicable settlement.” The missive, known as the Joan Anderson letter, after a woman with whom Cassady described an amorous relationship, had been known only from a fragment, apparently retyped by Kerouac, that was published in 1964.

Bookreporter.com | Violence Visual !!! The List List #112 Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. This installment of The List List is sponsored by Random House Audio. Visit TryAudiobooks.com to get recommendations and download a free audiobook. at Flavorwire, 5 of the Best Literary Frenemy Pairings at Design Taxi, The 15 Punctuation Marks (In Order of How Much They Do) at VIDA, Twenty “Gypsy” Women You Should Be Reading at Audubon, Great Books for Birders and Nature Lovers at The Boston Globe, 7 Books About Books at The Huffington Post, 7 Novels Starring Small American Towns at Word & Film, The 7 Big GAME OF THRONES Season 4 Deviations at SF Signal, 5 Short Masterpieces by the Women of Horror’s Golden Age at the LA Times, The Literary Films of Summer 2014 at Electric Literature, 10 Books That Prominently Feature Dogs at TIME, Great Books for Your Staycation at BuzzFeed Books, Library Cards From Around the US

Life in Cairo The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy Erinnerungen an das „Tanzverbot“ – Leider noch kein Nachruf | words can't do what action does louder! Karfreitag naht. Zeit, sich mit den ernsten Dingen des Lebens zu beschäftigen. Zum Beispiel mit dem rheinland-pfälzischen Landesgesetz über den Schutz der Sonn- und Feiertage (Feiertagsgesetz – LFtG). Auch auf Wunsch von Triers einzigem online-Kulturmagazin hunderttausend.de, dem ich natürlich gerne nachkomme. Wie aus meinem Steckbrief hervorgeht, war ich einst Mitbetreiber einer freien Cocktail- und Kultureinrichtung im “Herzen von Trier”. Frei deshalb, weil wir nicht öffentlich gefördert wurden und versuchten, uns lediglich aus Eintrittsgeldern, Thekenumsatz und dem ein oder anderen Werbedeal zu finanzieren. Ein trüber Freitagvormittag Ende November 2008. Der heutige Herr stellt sich als Mitarbeiter des Ordnungsamts vor. Das Rockband-Problem haben andere Läden, aber zum Hintergrund muss man folgendes wissen: Die Sachlage war mir nicht neu. Ich sollte an diesem Tag sehr viel telefonieren. Ich telefoniere mit dem Disponenten und “Leiter des künstlerischen Betriebsbüros”. Gefällt mir:

| Staff Picks and other Library Articles! Herm’s Farm A Zen Librarian: Bluestem and Monarch Shelf Talkers Over the summer, I saw an image, I think it was Jon Schu's library blog, that had what I call "shelf talkers." Basically they are little cards that are taped to the bookcase where the books are housed. The cards have a picture of the book, a synopsis of the story and a note about the contest the book is a part of. Here is an image of the shelf talker that got me started. Here is an example of one of my shelf talkers. Here is a link to the shelf talkers. Some Kind of Awesome - Home

The PLA Blog | Official Blog of the Public Library Association As the day wound down, attendance at the Readers’ Advisory Tool Kit III was a bit down, though still very decent. Those who lasted the full day of PLA got to hear three well-known librarians suggest more ways to get books into the hands of readers. With her section “Promoting the Backlist,” Georgine Olson of Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library and Regional Center in Fairbanks, Alaska (is the library stationary in landscape to fit the letterhead?), spoke to something that concerns me. How do you get all the great old books off the shelves and to readers? Part of the answer is that we actually do have to move them – put them on the displays that are catching the readers’ eyes. Booklists are another way to draw attention to older books. Olson also told her rules for making Read-a-Like lists. Joyce Saricks (described on the PLA website as “author, retired” which is hard to fathom for the active librarian) followed with her section “The Sane Librarian’s Guide to Genre Studies.”

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