J.D. Salinger, requiescat in pace ...

[David Morris]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/01/28/salinger-s-best-story.aspx

Salinger's Best Story

It "runs about 120 pages and has no appreciable form, reading like an
unedited, freewheeling character description. I know several avowed
Salinger fanatics who have never made it through the thing, and I
don't blame them … I see the messiness of 'Seymour: An Introduction'
as Salinger's final confrontation with all the strains of his earlier
fiction: sentimentality, depression, Eastern philosophy, isolation,
and the guilt of being happy."