1997--Year of Woodwork

[Craig Clark]

Richard Romeo reports:

> They're all coming out of the woodwork:
> 
> WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuter) - Reclusive author J. D. Salinger next month 
> will publish his first
> new book in 34 years, the Washington Post reported Friday. 
> 
> "Hapworth 16, 1924" will be issued by Orchises Press, a small press in 
> Alexandria, Va. run by
> George Mason University English professor Roger Lathbury, the newspaper 
> said. 
> 
> Salinger's agent, Phyllis Westberg, confirmed the deal but would answer 
> no other questions,
> according to the report. The publisher also refused to discuss any 
> details, including how many
> copies were being printed. He did say no copies would be sent to 
> reviewers. 
> 
> Between 1951 and 1963 Salinger, who is 78, published four books -- 
> "Catcher in the Rye," "Nine
> Stories," "Franny and Zooey," and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters." 
> 
> 
> The new book, which first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in 1965, 
> should be on sale by
> early March, the Post said. 

This was reported in our Sunday papers yesterday in South Africa, but 
no mention of other reclusive authors who are about to publish new 
novels....

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"