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Thursday, January 28th, 2010J.D. Salinger, one of a handful of writers who made me want to be a writer, has died at age 91. The Associated Press’s Hillel Italie claims, quite idiotically, that “[Mr.] Salinger’s other books don’t equal the influence or sales” of his first novel, The Catcher in the Rye. We couldn’t care less about sales, but as for the enduring “influence” of Nine Stories, of Franny and Zooey, and of Raise High The Roof Beams, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, I would beg to differ, and so would Wes Anderson, Daniel Handler, and the late Vladimir Nabokov, among others.