Recommended reading - Ham on Rye (1982):

Ham on Rye

By Charles Bukowski.

Published by Ecco.

Published 1982.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 006117758X

ISBN-13: 978-0061177583

Description:

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of D.H. Lawrence, Ham on Rye offers a crude, brutal, and savagely funny portrait of an outcast's coming-of-age during the desperate days of the Great Depression.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

The mystery story is two stories in one:

the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

On this day in movie history - Headhunters (2011):

Headhunters

directed by Morten Tyldum,

written by Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg,

based on the novel by Jo Nesbø,

was released in Norway on August 26, 2011.
Music by Trond Bjerknes and Jeppe Kaas.

Cast:

Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Eivind Sander, Julie Ølgaard, Reidar Sørensen, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Mads Mogeland, Baard Owe, Torgrim Mellum Stene, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Joachim Rafaelsen, Gunnar Skramstad Johnsen, Lars Skramstad Johnsen.

On this day in music history - One Kind Favor, by B.B. King (2008):

One Kind Favor

Album by B.B. King,
released on August 26, 2008.

Track list:

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean; I Get So Weary; Get These Blues off Me; How Many More Years; Waiting for Your Call; My Love Is Down; The World Gone Wrong; Blues Before Sunrise; Midnight Blues; Backwater Blues; Sitting on Top of the World; Tomorrow Night.

On this day in movie history - Prince of the City (1981):

Prince of the City

directed by Sidney Lumet,

written by Sidney Lumet and Jay Presson Allen,

based on the novel by Robert Daley,

was released in the United States on August 26, 1981.
Music by Paul Chihara.

Cast:

Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino, Carmine Caridi, Tony Page, Norman Parker, Paul Roebling, Bob Balaban, James Tolkan, Steve Inwood, Lindsay Crouse, Matthew Laurance, Tony Turco, Ronald Maccone, Ron Karabatsos, Tony DiBenedetto, Tony Munafo, Robert Christian, Lee Richardson, Lane Smith, Cosmo Allegretti, Bobby Alto, Michael Beckett, Burton Collins, Henry Ferrentino, Carmine Foresta, Conard Fowkes, Peter Friedman, Peter Michael Goetz, Lance Henriksen, Eddie Jones, Don Leslie, Dana Lorge, Harry Madsen, E.D. Miller, Cynthia Nixon, Ron Perkins, Lionel Pina, José Angel Santana, Walter Brooke, Richard Costabile, Peter Costanza, Peter Gannon, Alan King, Ilana Rapp.

Born on this day – Iris Junik:

Iris Junik

Actress

August 26, 1968 – March 29, 2009

Born on this day – Mark Snow:

Mark Snow

Composer

Actor

August 26, 1946 – July 4, 2025

Credits:

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