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Just heard this. RIP to one of my favorite authors.

A whole career out of one book. Not bad.

A whole career out of one book. Not bad.

Well, that could be said for Robert Oppenheimer. It also could be argued that it wasn't the quality, but the quantity of the book's effect that made his career, or almost his life. The guy lived in relative isolation for something like 50 years. I can't imagine. So, in my view, I just hope he RIP.

He had a cool life and a fair amount of published work.

RIP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Sali ... t_of_works

List of works
Books

* The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
* Nine Stories (1953)
o "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948)
o "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948)
o "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (1948)
o "The Laughing Man" (1949)
o "Down at the Dinghy" (1949)
o "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor" (1950)
o "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" (1951)
o "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" (1952)
o "Teddy" (1953)
* Franny and Zooey (1961)
* Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
o "Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters" (1955)
o "Seymour: An Introduction" (1959)

Published and anthologized stories

* "Go See Eddie" (1940, republished in Fiction: Form & Experience, ed. William M. Jones, 1969)
* "The Hang of It" (1941, republished in The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, 1943)
* "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" (1942, republished in Stories: The Fiction of the Forties, ed. Whit Burnett, 1949)
* "A Boy in France" (1945, republished in Post Stories 1942–45, ed. Ben Hibbs, 1946)
* "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" (1945, republished in The Armchair Esquire, ed. L. Rust Hills, 1959)
* "A Girl I Knew" (1948, republished in Best American Short Stories 1949, ed. Martha Foley, 1949)
* "Slight Rebellion off Madison" (1946, republished in Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, ed. David Remnick, 2000)

Published and unanthologized stories

* "The Young Folks" (1940)
* "The Heart of a Broken Story" (1941)
* "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" (1942)
* "The Varioni Brothers" (1943)
* "Both Parties Concerned" (1944)
* "Soft Boiled Sergeant" (1944)
* "Last Day of the Last Furlough" (1944)
* "Once a Week Won't Kill You" (1944)
* "Elaine" (1945)
* "The Stranger" (1945)
* "I'm Crazy" (1945)
* "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" (1947)
* "The Inverted Forest" (1943)
* "Blue Melody" (1948)
* "Hapworth 16, 1924" (1965)

RIP J.D.

"Catcher In The Rye"

Amazing just frackin amazing work.

WTH! he wanted to be a hermit that's better than being on TV everyday like all the goddamn phoneys!

One of the most deep writers at all...
http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/

Whining teenage angst? Meh.

Pass the Cormac Macarthy and the Ashida Kim.

You bunch of phonies!

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger
JANUARY 28, 2010 | ISSUE 46•04

CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn't do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. "He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers," said hot-shot English professor David Clarke, who is just like the rest of them, and even works at one of those crumby schools that rich people send their kids to so they don't have to look at them for four years. "There will never be another voice like his." Which is exactly the lousy kind of goddamn thing that people say, because really it could mean lots of things, or nothing at all even, and it's just a perfect example of why you should never tell anybody anything.

Hah hah ha... Dammit, who writes this kind of stuff, it's kind of bad to do so, but...

That was the Onion