JD Salinger dies aged 91

[RedAnarchist]

Although I can't find a source, numerous sites are reporting that J.D Salinger has died at the age of 91.

[un_person]

Nothing personal against Salinger, but Howard Zinn also passed away yesterday of a heart attack at age 87. Long Live Zinn.

[Tyrlop]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html
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what about Salinger? who is he?

[#FF0000]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/howard_zinn_his.html
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what about Salinger? who is he?

Author. Wrote The Catcher in the Rye which is probably among my favorite books of all time.

This is starting to hurt.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/books/01/28/salinger.obit/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

[Honggweilo]

well that ends the probability of resuming is writing career

[RedAnarchist]

According to the BBC, he had at least 15 finished manuscripts in a safe in his home. They might be published, destroyed or just left alone.

[Vanguard1917]

Does this mean there'll finally be a film adaptation of The Cather in the Rye? I know Salinger tended to refuse permission for screen rights.

[khad]

Salinger wrote himself into irrelevance, became obsessed with the "authenticity" of youth culture and alternative religions (including Scientology), and abused and manipulated his wife and family to no end.

I enjoyed Catcher in the Rye in high school, when I thought that there was ironic tension between the flaky narrator and his obsession with rooting out phoniness, but the more I think about Salinger and his approach towards literature, the more I just think that he was playing it straight. His fiction just kept getting weirder and more self-absorbed.

[Bilan]

Does this mean there'll finally be a film adaptation of The Cather in the Rye? I know Salinger tended to refuse permission for screen rights.

I hope not. Adaption usually destroys the beauty of a work. And this work isn't particularly pretty to begin with.

[which doctor]

since RP is no longer here, I'll be the one to say it

good riddance

[Weezer]

Only if HC were here...

[RHIZOMES]

eh a lot of artists are assholes IRL

[khad]

eh a lot of artists are assholes IRL
He pretty much stopped being a serious artist after his first book. Later in life he seemed to lose interest in fiction altogether.

[Dr Mindbender]

According to the BBC, he had at least 15 finished manuscripts in a safe in his home. They might be published, destroyed or just left alone.

someone should cut n paste it and we'll finish it via another 'revleft writes a story' thread.

:lol:

dibs on the movie rights since it was my idea.

[bcbm]

Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger


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.


http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bunch_of_phonies_mourn_j_d

[Stand Your Ground]

someone should cut n paste it and we'll finish it via another 'revleft writes a story' thread.

:lol:

dibs on the movie rights since it was my idea.
Hey this is commie world we SHARE everything.:)