Rare Note From Reclusive Author On Sale
A handwritten, one-sentence letter by reclusive writer J.D. Salinger is up for sale, the AP reports. The price? Owners of the scribble hope to...
A handwritten, one-sentence letter by reclusive writer J.D. Salinger is up for sale, the AP reports. The price? Owners of the scribble hope to...
The Evening Herald | Olaf Tyaransen | Posted 05.25.2011
WHEN Catcher in the Rye author JD Salinger died last January, many US literary figures were quick to publicly lament his passing. Not Bret Easton Elli...
Philip Goldberg | Posted 11.17.2011
I have learned that a surprising number of serious spiritual practitioners found early inspiration and direction from Salinger's post-"Catcher" work. And it still has the power to illuminate.
The Washington Post | Kathleen Parker | Posted 05.25.2011
[H]ow far we have come from the days of admiring a reclusive writer who sought shelter from the corrosive effects of fame to celebrating a typist -- a...
Comedy Central | Posted 05.25.2011
Stephen Colbert paid tribute last night to legendary author J.D. Salinger, who passed away last week. He had scholar and critic Henry Allen on the sho...
Pat York | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1966, on the set of one of my photo shoots, a mature man approached me and started up a conversation, asking me about my accent, and my likes and dislikes. He then introduced himself as J.D. Salinger.
Phil Perrier | Posted 05.25.2011
At 91 J.D. Salinger died, after many years in seclusion. Perfect. What better way for a genius novelist to live his life. Cranky and fiercely private. Just how Holden would want it.
The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.25.2011
J.D. Salinger's death has struck a chord around the world as those who grew up with the legendary author reflect on the end of an era. What has been s...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — So what about the safe? The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature's most mysterious lives and intensifies one of it...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
The Glass kids are at the center of Franny and Zooey, the one Salinger book I can re-read every year. With the exception of a short story, it's the last fiction Salinger has published -- and we're talking 1961 here.
Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011
The death of JD Salinger will most likely be heralded by the shrinking community which reveres art and culture, knowing that without them, society is a sterile, shallow, casually consuming mass.
Posted 05.25.2011
The internet is buzzing with the fans mourning the death of much-beloved author J.D. Salinger. Salinger has been dominating Twitter all day, but autho...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.14.2011