For Jerry, with love and squalor
So I got all these messages of condolence on the death of J.D. Salinger. I know you wanted to tell somebody-anybody; thank you for thinking of me. We’re sad but not distraught. J.D. Salinger got to live his life exactly the way he wanted to; we should all be so lucky. To honor the writer who has meant so much to me personally I am going to copy, by hand, my favorite Salinger story Just Before the War with the Eskimos. It’s the one that begins after a game of tennis.
Read Janet Malcolm’s defence of the Glass stories in the New York Review of Books in 2001.
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January 30th, 2010 at 06:22
Effort naman yang gagawin mo Ms Zafra, kopyahin mo ung buong libro. Hard!
Parang naalala ko ung mga nabasa ko dati tungkol sa mga malditang natives. Ang gawa eh lalafang sila ng soup o anofahman, tas ang ginagamit nilang mangkok eh ung bungo ng kanilang mga pinaslang na kalaban. Feeling nila eh mawi-winnie cordero nila ung lakas ng kung kanino mang bungo ung gagamitin nilang mangkok.
Minsan nga sabaw na gawa sa ashes ng mga mahal nila sa buhay.
Trulagen! Nginig, noh?
O kaya si Megaman, yung video game sa NES, ung naa-absorb nya ung mga talent nung mga na-luz valdez niyang bosses (Cutman, Gutsman, Iceman, old school itu).
January 30th, 2010 at 08:47
would you consider opening a twitter account? it’s a little less tmi than fb (if you want to) and the 140-character word count suits your pithiness. best, you don’t have to follow whoever follows you. jerome gomez tweeted that he texted you his condolences on salinger’s death but would’ve wanted to hear from you directly. at the exact time you came upon the news. please please please let us fans get (some of) what we want? thank you.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:11
Hi. Where canwe purchase a copy of “Nine Stories”? Seems like NBS only carries “Catcher in the Rye” Thanks. More Power!
January 30th, 2010 at 11:55
JD, if you have friends or relatives in Vancouver, ask them to get you a copy of “Nine Stories” at any of the 16 or so second hand bookstores downtown area. Theyre very friendly and helpful. God, I miss Vancouver.
January 30th, 2010 at 12:50
his works are great for rereading. i learn something new each time i open catcher. i only wish he left us so much more. :c
January 31st, 2010 at 14:24
It’s good to just know some people are alive in the background keeping things grounded to a certain perspective, which you can feel slipping away.
Now that he’s dead the world is a poorer place.
February 2nd, 2010 at 22:57
Apparently he was very neighborly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/us/01salinger.html?em