Letters / American Literature
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to J. D. Salinger He published his only novel more than fifty years ago. He has hardly been seen or heard from since 1965. Most writers fitting such a description are long forgotten, but if the novel is The Catcher in the Rye and the writer is J. D. Salinger . . . well, he's the stuff of legends, the most famously reclusive writer of the twentieth century. If you could write to him, what would you say? Salinger continues to maintain his silence, but Holden Caulfield, Franny and Zooey, and Seymour Glass—the unforgettable characters of his novel and short stories—continue to speak to generations of readers and writers. Letters to J. D. Salinger includes more than one hundred and fifty personal letters addressed to Salinger from well-known writers, editors, critics, journalists, and other luminaries, as well as from students, teachers, and readers around the world, some of whom have just discovered Salinger for the first time. Their voices testify to the lasting impressions Salinger's ideas and emotions have made on so many diverse lives. Contributors include Marvin Bell, Frederick Busch, Stephen Collins, Nicholas Delbanco, Warren French, Herbert Gold, W. P. Kinsella, Molly McQuade, Stewart O'Nan, Robert O'Connor, Ellis Paul, Molly Peacock, Sanford Pinsker, George Plimpton, Gerald Rosen, Sid Salinger, David Shields, Joseph Skibell, Melanie Rae Thon, Alma Luz Villanueva, Katharine Weber, and many others. "We are not writing these letters to you. Indeed, we are merely writing to ourselves or to the part of ourselves that once had true literary aspirations, had honor, had good-hearted and honest artistic intentions, and was not jaded."—Adrian C. Louis "You made the right decision. I've sometimes wished that I'd followed your example, although I'd have missed meeting hundreds of wonderful people."—Tom Robbins
Links to online reviews: The London Review of Books | Vol. 24, No. 8 dated 25 April 2002 | reviews Letters to J. D. Salinger in the second half of this review. http://www.lrb.co.uk/article.php?get=stur01_2408 At the bottom of this pdf is a recommendation
for Letters to J.D. Salinger Salon.com (April 17, 2002). http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/04/17/salinger/ Here's a link to the Village Voice blurb, the ninth book down in the Corner Books feature: http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/cornerbooks.shtml And the Book Reporter: Reviewed on Miami Herald's miami.com This is a direct link to the Harvard Book
Store's review at Harvard.com http://www.lib.odu.edu/forms/newbooks/newbooks.shtmlMilwaukee
Journal Sentinel: An interview in Chronicle of Higher Education
is mentioned on Moby Lives, a website devoted to publishing
news:
http://www.mobylives.com/ The Chronicle interview with Will Hochman is at http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i32/32a01802.htm
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