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

[Jordan Hunnicutt]

This relates pretty well.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_terminator_movie_brings_j_d
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bunch_of_phonies_mourn_j_d

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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."
>
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