http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Salinger Posts tagged with 'Salinger' at MetaFilter. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:17:13 -0800 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:17:13 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77889/In%2DSearch%2Dof%2DSalinger "I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work." Reclusive author <a href="http://www.geocities.com/deadcaulfields/DCHome.html">J.</a> <a href="http://www.salinger.org/">D.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger">Salinger</a> today <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/books/31sali.html?_r=1">celebrates his 90th birthday</a>. He hasn't published an original work <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1965/06/19/1965_06_19_032_TNY_CARDS_000276654">since 1965</a>, but he continues to <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10841242">attract</a> <a href="http://www.absolutegentleman.com/2008/08/27/in-search-of-jd-salinger-part-two/">followers</a>, and to avoid them. He <a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20075892,00.html">told one uninvited visitor</a> in 1978, "There's no gracious way to tell you to leave. I'm becoming embittered." But interviews with the author do exist. <ul><li>"<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LFjmemiGn5oC&pg=PA3">Interview with J. D. Salinger</a>" (1953) <li>"<a href="http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/salinger-speaks.html">J. D. Salinger Speaks About His Silence</a>" (1974) <li>"<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=LFjmemiGn5oC&pg=PA25">What I Did Last Summer</a>" (1981)</li></li></li></ul> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.77889 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:17:13 -0800 authors JDSalinger recluses Salinger Knappster http://www.metafilter.com/38678/Salinger%2Don%2Dthe%2Dweb <a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/perfectday.html">Read J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish"</a> if you're bored at work this week (or stuck in a Mexican hotel). And when you're done with that dig into the rest (with a couple of exceptions) of <a href="http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/">Salinger's published work</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38678 Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:15:10 -0800 Bananafish free JDSalinger literature Salinger cmaxmagee http://www.metafilter.com/32009/Literary%2DLabors%2Dof%2DLove%2Dand%2DLinkage <small><em>What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.</em><br><br>Holden Caulfield in <em><a href="http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger1.htm" title="The Praises and Criticisms of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ">Catcher In The Rye</a></em></small><br><br><a href="http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger.htm" title="...What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant Henry that was supposed to be a nice guy and all. I don't see how D.B. could hate the Army and war and all so much and still like a phony like that. I mean, for instance, I don't see how he could like a phony like that and still like that one by Ring Lardner, or that other one he's so crazy about, The Great Gatsby. D.B. got sore when I said that, and said I was too young and all to appreciate it, but I don't think so. I told him I liked Ring Lardner and The Great Gatsby and all. I did, too. I was crazy about The Great Gatsby. Old Gatsby. Old sport. That killed me. Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.">J.D. Salinger</a> did not quite agree but then, if you can't hang out with his secretive self, or any other chosen literary icon, you can build her or him a fitting shrine or two or three. It's not quite <a href="http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm" title="Nevertheless, from my brief encounter with Pynchon I gleaned a few things about the man behind the screen. I know that he follows the reviews and evidently cares what critics say about him. That he probably has help with his research. That he usually works slowly and disparages Lot 49--wrongly, I believe--because he wrote hastily. That he's shy, doesn't talk much, and doesn't open up to strangers. That he's intense and has lots of nervous energy--the nail biting and cup shredding. That he picks his friends carefully to guard himself: no wonder trust and betrayal are central themes in Vineland. That he writes his friends into his fiction. That, at least during the late sixties, he was a heavy doper--thus his sympathy with an aging, beleagured head like Zoyd Wheeler. That he's generous, shares his stash and doesn't bogart his joints. That, like Benny Profane in V., he is ''given to sentimental impulses'' (1): he writes love letters, stays friends with a former lover, and shows up at her wedding. That, despite his reserved, introverted manner, he seems to care deeply: keep cool but care. That he reads a lot, including novels by his contemporaries. That he loves rock music, which is all over Vineland. That he's got a zany streak: the sense of play in his fiction is part of his life--he likes to set off firecrackers in the middle of the night. Does that explain the fascination with rockets in Gravity's Rainbow? Probably not, but it's nice to think of his fiction as a string of exploding firecrackers.">Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon</a> but... tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.32009 Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:51:23 -0800 jdsalinger literature pynchon salinger thomaspynchon y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/19315/ <a href="http://www.gregoryfca.com/irp_gfca081902.htm">"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where all these profits came from, and why all these acquisitions went sour, what our net income is, and why WorldCom stock prices are in the toilet, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."</a> Holden Caulfield, caught up in the boom. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.19315 Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:28:23 -0800 brokenlink holdencaufield salinger spoof luser http://www.metafilter.com/9049/ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/185129/103-6841299-5659019">Happy birthday, Holden.</a> <u>Catcher in the Rye</u> turns 50 years old today. tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.9049 Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:32:29 -0800 authors books catcherintherye holdencaulfield jdsalinger salinger honkzilla