Most Overrated Classic Books
Ever read a classic and asked yourself, "What’s the big deal?" There are thousands of books the world considers classics, from Shakespeare to Saling...
Ever read a classic and asked yourself, "What’s the big deal?" There are thousands of books the world considers classics, from Shakespeare to Saling...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.23.2011
Ever since the 1951 book The Catcher In the Rye, stories about angsty, alienated, financially secure (mostly male) teenagers in existential crisis over "what it all means" have become a staple of movies, TV and literature.
guardian.co.uk | Stephen Kelman | Posted 07.25.2011
Stephen Kelman was born in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local gov...
guardian.co.uk | Woody Allen | Posted 07.09.2011
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Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011
My heart is hammering away as I'm driving up J.D. Salinger's long, snowy driveway, and it hits me like the night train: This isn't how I wanted it to happen.
Tom Payne | Posted 05.25.2011
We thought he was the tight-lipped, pap-menacing boffin who wrote The Catcher in the Rye, but it turns out that he was a media popsy who was desperate to make contact with people.
The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Flavorwire | Caroline Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011
In an age where widespread self promotion (and in many cases, oversharing) is just 140 characters away, the idea of a reclusive author seems both coun...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Salon.com | Alex Pareene | Posted 05.25.2011
"The Catcher in the Rye" should never be made into a movie. Period. To entertain such thoughts requires the would-be adapter to ignore three strong a...
Caroline Hagood | Posted 05.25.2011
Which writers would you like to see get it on?
AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 05.25.2011
BOSTON — It was the summer of 1946 when a young and war-fatigued J.D. Salinger reached out to another writer whose career had also been shaped b...
Posted 05.25.2011
"South Park" paid tribute to the late J.D. Salinger last night, when the gang was assigned "The Catcher in the Rye" to read for school. In a hilarious...
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
What's missing is the effortless character charisma Salinger provided. It does no damage to the 1951 bestseller. The Catcher in the Rye continues to stand on its own, unassailed.
The New York Times | ALISON LEIGH COWAN | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt and Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
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...
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
Salinger's teenage hero, Holden Caulfield, lives on in my unauthorized novel: a mashup combining The Catcher in the Rye and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
The only book my mother ever forbade me to read was The Catcher in the Rye. Perhaps if she'd used reverse psychology, I wouldn't have become an avid Salinger fan.
Wendy Block | Posted 11.17.2011
I would never have linked these two icons - Zinn and Salinger. But after both deaths unsettled me similarly, I realized that what I loved about each was his rebellious, idealistic soul.
Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011
As a sixteen-year-old, I felt that Holden Caulfield's suspicions and black humor and irreverence would inevitably position me as the sort of adult artist I someday hoped to become.
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.
Dwayne Raymond | Posted 05.25.2011
Salinger has left the building and the literary world is all the emptier for it.
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Federal appeals court judges had plenty of questions Thursday about a Swedish author's so-far unsuccessful attempt to publish a book ...
David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011
Salinger might be better off taking the view of James M. Cain, the author of several hot 1940s chart items. Cain, asked once how he felt about what Hollywood had done to his books, said, "Hollywood hasn't done anything to my books. There they all are, up on the shelf."
Posted 09.18.2011