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.
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...
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...
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.
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 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...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.14.2011