April 19, 2002
A One-Sided Conversation With J.D. Salinger
"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." So says Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. Generations of readers have experienced just that feeling of immediacy in their encounter with J.D. Salinger -- who does not, however, answer many calls. Letters to J.D. Salinger (University of Wisconsin Press), edited by Chris
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