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Reviews of J. D. Salinger's Books

Manufactures About J. D. Salinger

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Ron Rosenbaum Reviews Margaret A. Salinger's 'Dream Catcher: A Memoir' (Oct 8, 2000)

First Chapter: 'Dream Catcher'

Salinger's Daughter's Truths as Mesmerizing every bit His Fiction (Aug. 30, 2000)

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Salinger in 1953

REVIEWS OF J. D. SALINGER'S BOOKS:

'The Catcher in the Rye,' reivewed James Stern (1951)
In his negative review of Salinger's classic, James Stern mockingly employs the informal slang of Holden Caufield: "This Salinger, he'south a curt story guy. And he knows how to write near kids. This book though, it'due south likewise long. Gets kind of monotonous."

'The Catcher in the Rye,' reviewed past Nash One thousand. Burger (1951)
". . . an unusually brilliant novel . . . Salinger's rendering of teen-historic period speech is wonderful: the unconscious humor, the repetitions, the slang and profanity, the accent, all are only correct."

'Nine Stories,' reviewed by Eudora Welty (1953)
"J. D. Salinger'due south writing is original, first rate, serious and beautiful. . . . Salinger is a very serious creative person, and it is likely that what he has to say will find many forms every bit time goes by . . ."

'Nine Stories,'reviewed by Charles Poore (1953)
"'Nine Stories' can best be criticized in terms of what we wait of Salinger. Perhaps it's unfair to ask him to be excellent all the time. Still, the business of playing tunes on the nerves of his characters tin can become fairly monotonous."

'Franny and Zooey,' reviewed past John Updike (1961)
"When all reservations have been entered . . . about the direction he has taken, information technology remains to acknowledge that it is a direction, and that the refusal to residue content, the willingness to take a chance backlog on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of the states all."

'Franny and Zooey,' reviewed by Charles Poore (1961)
". . . perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation."

'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour -- An Introduction' (1963)
". . . a perplexing combination of literary professionalism and literary cocky-indulgence, of subtle sophistication and of a basic, not very well-concealed sentimentality. J. D. Salinger is a profoundly talented author who has non yet constitute his way through the woods."

ARTICLES ABOUT J. D. SALINGER:

J. D. Salinger Speaks About His Silence (November 3, 1974)
Goaded past publication of unauthorized editions of his early, previously uncollected works, Salinger broke a public silence of more than twenty years, issuing a denunciation and revealing he is difficult at work on writings that may never be published in his lifetime.

Salinger Was Playing Our Vocal (June 3, 1979)
Salinger's merits are often confused with nostalgia for his bear on on 1950's youth, but this essay says that, "Information technology's nostalgia, as a matter of fact, that can keep us from seeing and saying that Salinger is 1 of the very best living writers . . ."

Holden, fifty, Still Catches (December 21, 1979)
In this essay, Fred Bratman recalls his initial reaction to "my fictional friend, Holden Caulfield," who first appeared in Collier'due south magazine in 1945.

Where to Find the Sequel to 'The Catcher in the Rye' (July 8, 1980)
In a rare interview, Salinger was quoted in the Boston Globe maxim, " I write for myself and I want to be left absolutely lone to do information technology. . . . There'southward no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book once again. It's all there."

Publishing: Visit With J. D. Salinger (September 11, 1981)
This article recounts how Betty Eppes, a reporter for The Baton Rouge Advocate, managed a cursory interview with J. D. Salinger, which was afterward published in The Paris Review.

J. D. Salinger Files Impersonation Lawsuit (October fourteen, 1982)
Salinger sued Steven Kunes for trying to sell a fraudulent interview supposedly with Salinger to People magazine.

Gauge Refuses to Block J. D. Salinger Biography (November 6, 1986)
Salinger filed a suit to block a biography, "J. D. Salinger: A Writing Life" by Ian Hamilton, contending that its utilize of unpublished letters violated copyright laws.

Salinger Biography Is Blocked (January 30, 1987)
Ian Hamilton'south biography of Salinger was blocked by a Federal appeals court that said the volume unfairly used Mr. Salinger's unpublished letters.

Mordecai Richler Reviews Ian Hamilton's 'In Search of J. D. Salinger' (June 5, 1988)
". . . raises many questions larger than the legal tangle that delayed the volume'due south publication for two years . . . I fail to understand what I take to exist a burgeoning marvel almost writers' lives."

From Salinger, A New Dash Of Mystery (February 20, 1997)
Thirty years after it initially appeared in The New Yorker, Salinger published the story "Hapworth 16, 1924" in book grade using an obscure, small press.

J. D. Salinger To Be Focus of a Memoir (Nov 21, 1997)
The novelist and journalist Joyce Maynard appear that she would publish a memoir in which she would describe her relationship with Salinger.

The Cult of Joyce Maynard (September 6, 1998)
She has written about everything from her messy divorce to her chest implants -- and now at that place's a detailed business relationship of her youthful affair with J. D. Salinger. The literati may exist appalled, but her devoted fans bask every give-and-take.

Katha Pollitt Reviews Joyce Maynard'due south 'At Home in the World' (September xiii, 1998)
"Maynard was on the receiving end of quite a chip of harm from adults. If she doesn't always seem to empathize her own story . . . maybe that goes to evidence how deep the damage went."

Start Chapter: 'At Abode in the World'

Dear Letters in the Wind: Salinger'due south for Auction (May 12, 1999)
Xiv messages by Salinger to the writer Joyce Maynard were auctioned at Sotheby's New York, in a move that raised vexing questions about the private rights of public figures.

About Salinger Letters, the Bespeak Is, Um . . . (June 22, 1999)
Joyce Maynard, who has had a crude fourth dimension in the press since she announced that she was planning to sell the love letters J. D. Salinger sent her when she was 18, says that she has not devoted her life to exploiting her relationship with the famously reclusive author.

J. D. Salinger's Love Letters Sold to Entrepreneur Who Says He Volition Return Them (June 23, 1999)
Fourteen letters written by Salinger to Joyce Maynard were sold at auction to Peter Norton, a software company founder, who said he would return the letters to the author.

Salinger'southward Daughter Plans to Publish a Memoir (June 24, 1999)
Salinger's daughter Margaret (Peggy) Salinger announced that she is preparing to publish a memoir of her babyhood and relationship with her father.

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