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What We've Learned About J.D. Salinger Since His Death

Kenneth Slawenski | Posted 03.28.2012

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Kenneth Slawenski

The author, who was famous for demanding control over every detail of his work while living, is still in control. Two years on, we are no closer to cementing Salinger's legacy than we were on the day that he died.

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Unfilmable Books

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Books and movies have gone hand-in-hand since Hollywood's very beginnings. Some of its greatest triumphs--"The Godfather," "Gone With The Wind," "The ...

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Twain, Salinger, Kafka ...

guardian.co.uk | Nicholas Royle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringin...

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Salinger Taught Her To Be Trashy

The Paris Review | Jillian Lauren | Posted 05.25.2011

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But it wasn't until age fourteen that I met Seymour Glass and fell in love. I read Nine Stories and read it again and found that it left me suffering ...

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Salinger-Signed 'The Catcher in the Rye' Up For Auction

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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That rarity, which makes the auction so exciting, also makes it merit scrutiny. And a thing or two about the auction of "The Catcher in the Rye" seem ...

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Salinger's Toliet For Sale:

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's a hard-to-believe EBay listing: a toilet "PERSONALLY OWNED & USED" by J.D. Salinger. ...

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Why Do Americans Write Such Great Coming-Of-Age Novels?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is this merely coincidence, or is there something else at work here? Do American writers absorb Bildungsroman aptitude alongside fluoridated water and...

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Salinger, Huxley, Steinbeck: Great Books Hated During Their Time

Cracked | Jacopo della Quercia | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many, if not most, of the books you were handed in high school as required reading were hated by critics and readers alike when they first hit shelves...

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Salinger Parody In Copyright Battle; Swedish Book Unlikely To Be Published In U.S.

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A Swedish author is unlikely to win approval through the courts to publish his novel in the United States, because it is substantiall...

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J.D. Salinger's 'Hapworth': How A Publisher Blew His Opportunity To Publish The Legend

New York Magazine | Roger Lathbury | Posted 05.25.2011

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The first letter I got from J.D. Salinger was very short. It was 1988, and I had written to him with a proposal: I wanted my tiny publishing house, Or...

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John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes

The New York Review of Books | Edmund White | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Strange Charms of John Cheever Edmund White The New York Review of Books "Cheever: A Life" by Blake Bailey Knopf/Vintage, 770 pp., $35.00; $16.9...

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J.D. Salinger Letters Go Public, Reveal Details Of His Life And Writing

The New York Times | ALISON LEIGH COWAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The letters, a total of 11, were written between 1951 and 1993, from one buddy, or "Buddyroo," to another. In sharp and familiar prose, laced with hum...

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J.D. Salinger Hated Hitchens, Secret Letter Stash May Reveal?

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt and Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: The Guardian reports that the letters are actually a fake, as confirmed by an editor from Taki's newspaper, The Spectator: Fortunately we wil...

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Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me....

Lisa Solod | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lisa Solod

"I'm going to go out in the yard and eat worms," is how the rest of that sad ditty goes. If you didn't say it as a child, you know someone who d...

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J.D. Salinger Quotes: Best Sayings From 'Catcher In The Rye' Author

Posted 05.25.2011

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In honor of J.D. Salinger, who died today at 91, HuffPost Books collected some of the best Salinger quotes. You may want to share these Salinger qu...

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Share Your J.D. Salinger Memories

Posted 05.25.2011

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Like the passing of any great artist, the death of author J.D. Salinger has heralded in a nostalgia not only for his works but also the moments those ...

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J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): His Legacy Isn't 'Catcher in the Rye'. It's His Glass Family Stories

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

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.

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Remembering J.D. Salinger

Posted 05.25.2011

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J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shu...

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60 YEARS LATER: COMING THROUGH THE RYE - J.D. Salinger Sues Over Sequel

06/04/2009 | Michael Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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"What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff," says Holden Caulfield in the literary masterpiece The Catcher in th...

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