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J.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.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
I thought of you right away when I heard about this; I’m remembering Salinger with love and squalor
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Here, here (or is it hear hear Poor Richard?) I keep hearing a lot of silly things quipped off on this, the funniest is of course the stuff about what BEE tweeted. Then again I couldn’t take seriously anything he’d tweet, and maybe he, as the master of doppelganger study, was just doing it honor of facebook’s (no that would be even more ridiculous) doppelgänger week. Whatever, love to both.
But in contrast to the silliness, that’s a good point, quip, what have ye, up there above. And I just wanted to add, amidst all the exterior talk was that people were happy that Catcher was never made into a movie. Well as you point out, Wes Anderson owes a lot. It didn’t take me 10 minutes of watching The Royal Tenenbaums to know that I’d read it somewhere before…the Glass family’s Wise Child(ren).
If the rights now get sold, do you think he should make a Catcher or a Franny and Zooey? I’d like to see it actually. But don’t need too. Enjoyed the Fantastic Fox by the way. Hope my kid soon to be will get all the grown up talk in it sooner than later. And yes, baby in shit, 3 weeks? Maybe 4?
February 7th, 2010 at 11:40 am
If there is a Catcher movie, and especially one involving Wes Anderson, I’m moving to Cornish, NH as fast as I can.