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RIP Howard Zinn & J.D. Salinger
A Reclusive Writer's History... finished.
- By tgl at 2010 Jan 28 - 4:35pm
- death notice
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Do you think people will treat Salinger the way Holden wanted to be treated when he died?
Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody. - Holden Caulfield
"I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye...I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye...I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
Estimated fifteen novels written in Cornish, per the British press. I hope they're released. It'd be very Salinger to stipulate that they not get released, though, or after x years.
http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/01/i-went-to-jd-salingers-house.html
A+ The writer is now employed by Tucker Carlson.
Success.
Zelda Rubinstein
Her Obit underneath Zinn's in today's NYT.
Near the pie.