greetings! -Reply
Daniel Mahanty (MAHANTYD@ojp.usdoj.gov)
Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:25:05 -0400
Dear Jake,
I would welcome you to the list, but as I am also as a relatively "new", i.e.
seldom posting-until- I- got -a- slack- job-voyeur of the B-fish list, it might
be a little presumptuous. So, greetings, etc etc.
>joyce maynards new book and peoples infaliable desire to flush him out
>of hiding, some of us readers feel that he owes us something and that
>he
>has gotten away with his hermitude for too long. Just look at the result
>of ian Hamilton's book "In Search of jd salinger" and you can see just
>how hungry we are for salinger's resurfacing.
I don't know if being a participant of the list predetermines my comments
as hypocritical, but I would be extraordinarily content if the man remained
as enigmatic( if not more so), as "reclusive", and as
under-main-streamed as he is now.
I think that perhaps many readers enjoy that part of his character.
If anything, with the four short books and multitudinous short magazine
publications, I feel as though I almost owe HIM something. Least of all his
privacy.
Have fun writing your thesis tho.
Dan Mahanty