Bookseller Justin Jasper, "one of the driving forces behind the awesomeness that is Skylight Books, and one of the kindest and smartest people that you would ever meet, " died last week, the Los Angeles bookstore reported on its Facebook page. He was 35. A celebration of Jasper's life was held Saturday. Noel Alumit wrote a poem, "About a Bookseller," in his honor and Skylight's tribute included: "An intelligent lover of the weird and wonderful, his humor, insight, anarchic energy and creativity will be missed by all of us."
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Chris Kyle, former Navy SEAL sharpshooter in Iraq and author of American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Morrow), was shot and killed on a Texas shooting range by a fellow vet, according to the New York Times. Kyle was 38.