J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010

[callipygias]

Died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire. 91 years old.
Amazing to think that he only produced one novel.

[Chuck]

Well, there were a couple of others . . . Franny & Zooey and one more that no one really paid attention to.

I haven't read Catcher in years -- I'm wondering how my jaundiced eye would view it today.

R.I.P. J.D.

[callipygias]

Here's a link to a Time article. www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1957492,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Jan 28, 2010 19:48:22 GMT -5 Chuck said:

Well, there were a couple of others . . . Franny & Zooey and one more that no one really paid attention to.

I believe those are all short stories and a couple novellas.

[inlovewithcrow]

His short stories were simply amazing. People talk about Great American Novels...but Nine Stories is worth any other great american novel, imo. For Esme... A perfect day... and Teddy, which blew my mind the first time I read it at age 12 or so.

And his unwillingness to further commodify his art, if that's what happened, impresses me still.

[Mod City]

Proof you can make an impact on the world with a relatively small body of published work. Quality, not quantity. Catcher is an amazing accomplishment and holds up pretty well today.

Rest well, sir.

[solgroupie]

i read catcher for the first time just last year. it wasn't what i was expecting and though i enjoyed it, i wish i had been exposed to it when i was younger. i think it is interesting to get the opinions of people who read it - say in high school, and then twenty something years later. like mod city said, quality, not quantity - that sums up salinger pretty well.

[Mr. Atari]

Eh, I never liked him. He was just a big phony.


Actually, Craig Ferguson did a tremendous monologue about Salinger the other night. Yet more proof that Ferguson is the best host in late night.

[Wide_Awake_Nightmare]

"Catcher" is an amazing book. Not contributing much with that but...poopie.