Jan
28
RIP JD Salinger
ByThis man changed my life with Nine Stories, Seymour: an Introduction, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Franny and Zooey. Â Here’s hoping he’s got two hundred manuscripts squirelled away, and we get to read him for another hundred years.
Farewell, J.D. Salinger. You gave voice to one of the central themes of my life:
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
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January 28th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Give a thought to Howard Zinn as well…
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January 29th, 2010 at 2:19 am
A big AMEN for jobs well done and RIP to the deserving souls.
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January 29th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
People should read all four books, not just Catcher. I find Franny and Zooey to be delightful. It’s very funny, perceptive, and full of the requisite Salingeresque barbs.
I have to guess that Wes Anderson was very much influenced by JDS. The Royal Tenenbaums has Salingermarks all over it.
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January 29th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
If the rumors about the contents of his safe are true we’ll have 15 more books to read…
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