Hey Allright! Thanks. From what I heard the book is a legitimate publishing. Yeah, I found that a tad weird too. I wonder why he only released it overseas. Maybe J.D. found something in their culture that made them deserve or need it. I dunno.. strange. Jared. From: WILL HOCHMAN <hochman@uscolo.edu> >The title in English is > >Selected Stories of J.D. Salinger and the stories included are >"Slight Rebellion Off Madison," "A Young Girl in l941 With No Waist >At All," "A Girl I Knew," "Blue Melody," and "The Inverted Forest." I >haven't found a Japanese friend able to look at it and tell me about >the publisher but I think this an approved Salinger book...isn't it odd >that he would let Japanese readers have these stories in a book? >will