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Chaim Potok's Asher Lev Still Lives

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.07.2013 | New York
Thane Rosenbaum

Did I mention that he is a Hasidic Jew? Asher Lev makes Matisyahu look like beat-boxing was never meant for anything more racy than a bar mitzvah.

Your Ultimate High School Reading List

Posted 02.20.2013 | Teen

It's not always fun to read when it's required for school, but once in a while a special piece of literature will bring out our inner book-worm and ge...

Unlikely Pen Pals: Cop Sells Letters He Got From John Lennon's Killer

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 04.21.2013 | Crime

NEW YORK — Letters from John Lennon's killer detailing his obsession with the novel "The Catcher in the Rye" to the police officer who arrested ...

5 Books Every High School Student Should Read

By Marissa Page Marissa Page is a junior at University of Chicago Lab. She’s a student reporter for The Mash, a weekly teen publication distribut...

Our Next Book Club Pick

Madeleine Crum | Posted 12.05.2012 | Books
Madeleine Crum

Our next selection came down to the closest vote in the (relatively short) history of HuffPost Book Club

Most Overrated Classic Books

Posted 09.18.2011 | 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...

ReThink Review: The Art of Getting By -- Smells Like Teen Angst

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.23.2011 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

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.

From Huck Finn To Holden Caulfield: Top 10 Outsiders' Stories

guardian.co.uk | Stephen Kelman | Posted 07.25.2011 | Books

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...

Woody Allen's Top 5 Books

guardian.co.uk | Woody Allen | Posted 07.09.2011 | Books

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J.D. Salinger Never Invited Me Back

Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Charlie Carillo

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.

Salinger Courted Fame After All

Tom Payne | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Tom Payne

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.

Unfilmable Books

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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 ...

The 5 Most Reclusive Authors Of The 20th Century: In Defense Of Privacy

Flavorwire | Caroline Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

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

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

Why 'The Catcher In The Rye' Should Never Be Made Into A Movie

Salon.com | Alex Pareene | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

"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...

5 Literary Hook-Ups I'd Like to See

Caroline Hagood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Caroline Hagood

Which writers would you like to see get it on?

J.D. Salinger Letter To Hemingway On Public Display For The First Time

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

'South Park' Pays Tribute To J.D. Salinger, Takes On Schools That Ban 'Catcher In The Rye' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

"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...

John David California's Novel Attempt to Best J. D. Salinger: Read It and Weep

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
David Finkle

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.

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

The New York Times | ALISON LEIGH COWAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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...

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

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

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...

Stephen Colbert On J.D. Salinger: 'I Am Calling Bullsh*t On This Salinger Guy' (VIDEO)

Comedy Central | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

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 Snatcher in the Rye

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Laurence Hughes

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.

J. D. Salinger Remembered With Gratitude and Suspicion

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
David Finkle

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.

Howard Zinn And J. D. Salinger: Two Heroes

Wendy Block | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Wendy Block

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.