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  1. Newly released letters reveal JD Salinger’s wariness over ‘second-rate reviewers’

    Exclusive: Author asked to remove reference to his ‘Jewish-Irishness’ from book jacket of The Catcher in the Rye He was a reclusive author, who revealed little about himself or the inspiration for his 1951 masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye. Now letters that JD Salinger wrote to his editor have come to light for the first time, offering significant insights, literary and personal. A previously unpublished correspondence reveals the author’s intervention over how he and his novel would be presented and his unease about his writing being viewed through an ethnic or religious lens. Continue reading...
    theguardian.com/books/2026/apr

    #JDSalinger #Books #Culture #Publishing

  2. Currently reading: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I know most people read this in high school, but it was never assigned reading for me so I’m doing a little catch up. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #TheCatcherintheRye #JDSalinger #currentlyreading #ReadBannedBooks

  3. 15 anni fa moriva #JDSalinger. E 10 anni dopo un programma #TV che mostrava cos'è il "servizio pubblico". Per un pugno di libri 2018 - Il giovane Holden - Video - #RaiPlay raiplay.it/video/2018/01/Per-u #UnoLibri

  4. Finished reading Kenneth Slawenski's "J.D. Salinger: A Life."
    amzn.to/3XPevJS
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    Informative and entertaining, but Slawenski spends too much time recapping Salinger's stories. Now to reread "Catcher."
    #books #reading #biography #JDSalinger

  5. Started reading Kenneth Slawenski's "J.D. Salinger: A Life."
    amzn.to/3XPevJS
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    Like all good biographies, this is so far as entertaining as it is informative.
    #books #reading #biography #JDSalinger

  6. New #podcast! Stephen B. Shepard joins the show to talk about his new #book, SALINGER'S SOUL! We talk #writing #art #JDSalinger #fame #religion #vedanta #sex & whether there really is a 40+-year cache of Salinger's prose on its way to publication & more. GO LISTEN! chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-

  7. @RustyBertrand
    I just happened upon a documentary about #JDSalinger last night, and I was enthralled. I enjoyed reading #TheCatcherInTheRye decades ago, but that's all I ever knew about him. I found my old copy of The Catcher in the Rye to reread, and ordered Nine Stories.

  8. I'll say it out loud: #React is the web dev equivalent of Catcher in the Rye.

    I will not be taking any questions at this time.

    #jdsalinger #CatcherInTheRye #useEffect you #phony.

  9. "As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book." #JDSalinger #offk

  10. I'm rereading JD Salinger's Franny & Zoey. I hadn't picked it up in about 40 years. It's much better written than I remember—I find it a better, more nuanced work than Catcher in the Rye.

    #JDSalinger
    #FrannyAndZoey

  11. #Existential angst is navel gazing through a metaphysical microscope.

    As you grow, if you grow, you will find your now seemingly profound ramblings are not new nor particularly insightful except to you.

    Infants find their own toes to be fascinating for awhile, too.

    A list of #authors to pull self-absorbed angry young men out of the Slough of Despond:

    #Kafka
    #HarukiMurakami
    #JohnFowles
    #Dostoevsky
    #JohnNichols
    #JohnIrving
    #TomRobbins
    #DouglasAdams
    #NealStephenson
    #WilliamGibson
    #JDSalinger

  12. #7books
    (these all got to me before I was 21, and kind of soaked into me)
    Jane Eyre #CharlotteBronte
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #DouglasAdams
    The Catcher in the Rye #JDSalinger
    Rebecca #DaphneDuMaurier
    Beyond The Glass #AntoniaWhite
    Good Morning, Midnight #JeanRhys
    The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (selected by #PhilipLarkin - my aunt gave it to me for my 16th birthday)

    #books #bookstodon #reading

  13. #introduction part three-reading. My favorite authors are #kurtvonnegutjr , #tomrobbins #terrypratchett #douglasadams , #isaacasimov #JohnKennedyToole, and #JDSalinger. I don't have as much time to read novels these days other than reading with my kids, so a lot of #yalit like #JKRowling (f-ck #transphobia ), #PhillipPullman, #CSLewis and #JRRTolkien . I also was into the #wheeloftime series. But these days at least %50 of what I read are articles posted on social media