My Salinger Year on The Catcher in the Rye: “Books so ubiquitous on the contemporary bookshelf I barely noticed them: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories.”
My Salinger Year on Franny and Zooey: “Books so ubiquitous on the contemporary bookshelf I barely noticed them: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories.”
My Salinger Year on Nine Stories: “Books so ubiquitous on the contemporary bookshelf I barely noticed them: The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories.”
My Salinger Year on Seymour: An Introduction: “I did not know then, would not know for months and months—when I finally read "Seymour—an Introduction"—that Salinger equated poetry with spirituality.”
My Salinger Year on Teddy: “Equally harmless were editors of textbooks and anthologies, guilelessly hoping to include "Teddy" in their collection of stories on marriage and divorce or an excerpt from Catcher in the new edition of The Norton Anthology of American Literature.”
My Salinger Year on A Perfect Day for Bananafish: “Even the names of the stories seemed juvenile and too clever-clever: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." I didn't want to be entertained.”
My Salinger Year on Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut: “Even the names of the stories seemed juvenile and too clever-clever: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut." I didn't want to be entertained.”
My Salinger Year on De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period: “My whole life seemed to have narrowed down to Salinger, Salinger, Salinger, in this case a line from "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period." The narrator of the story, a teacher at a correspondence-based art school, writes a letter to his one talented pupil...”
My Salinger Year on For Esmé—with Love and Squalor: “Apparently, Jerry had been horrified by the quality of the British paperback of Nine Stories—called For Esmé—with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories in the U.K.—so horrified that he'd raised a huge fuss and broken with his longtime publisher.”