Re: the "Maynard on Salinger" article
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 15:30:58 -0500
> Tim, I just called to reserve my copy of the mag but here in colorado,
> that means maybe by friday...nonetheless, from what i've heard pre-pub and
> gather from your response, the real nugget is that mr. salinger is writing
> books! Assuming he's not gonna try a kafka, there's new salinger writing
> perhaps even with new Glass family members or more about our loved ones in
> any case...that is wonderful news!
Yes! I've been trying to overlook the seedier angle (it's seedy to me,
like going through dirty laundry) in favor of the good news.
May the safe have been locked up, a couple of years ago, when there was a
fire in the house!
> I've been reading _Here But Not Here_ by Lillian Ross and found some
> wonderful salinger-shawn stuff...did we know that mr. salinger was god
> father to Ross's and Shawn's adopted son? Also, that is was mr. shawn who
> fought most of the new yorker editorial staff to publish zooey?
The godfather thing I had mentioned in a previous post. I had forgotten
that bit about "Zooey," though.
> One thing about the Maynard piece though that I must take issue with even
> before reading it...anyone claiming to have a memory/perception that is
> documentary in acumen creates great doubts in this poet's mind.
Ah, yes ... the author comes across, in the dialogue presented, like Buddy
Glass, but exACTly. 8-)
--tim