“All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one,” postmodern literary poster boy David Shields once noted. J.D. Salinger did both. With “Nine Stories,” “The Catcher in the Rye” ...
Reclusive US author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the American post-war literary classic “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died of natural causes aged 91. His literary agent, Phyllis Westberg, said he died on ...
New York Daily News: J.D. Salinger, reclusive literary giant who wrote ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ dead at age 91
J.D. Salinger, reclusive literary giant who wrote ‘Catcher in the Rye,’ dead at age 91
A new J.D. Salinger biopic has found its rebel. English actor Nicholas Hoult will play the literary legend in the upcoming film “Rebel in the Rye” — which tells the story of Salinger writing his ...
The Washington Post: ‘Rebel in the Rye’: An all-too-conventional portrait of a literary iconoclast
Fast Company: ‘Catcher in the Rye’ is finally going to be an e-book. Here’s why it took so long
Disaffected youth can finally read Catcher in the Rye on their Kindle Paperwhites, just like J.D. Salinger intended. The new reading format comes courtesy of Salinger’s son, Matt Salinger, who helps ...
‘Catcher in the Rye’ is finally going to be an e-book. Here’s why it took so long
To remember J. D. Salinger is, of course, to remember The Catcher in the Rye—though not, perhaps, how some critics didn't like it in 1951. Catholic World noted its "formidably excessive use of amateur ...