The good ol' New Yorker
Dave Koch (dkoch@sas.upenn.edu)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:41:45 -0400
Hello Everyone --
I know the answer to this question is probably "Yes, we've read it and yes,
we've already discussed it," because, to be honest, I don't read this list
as much as I'd like to/should/feel I should (but I do let it clog up the
ol' In Box every morning). Anyway, here goes:
There was a nice (I'd say fantastic, actually) little review in this week's
New Yorker (the double issue with the woman-with-key-hole-for-a-face cover)
of the brand new tell all memoir by that New York Times Magazine girl
(what's her name) -- half of the book's about her relationship with good
ol' J.D..
I don't have the article in front of me, but I'm sure some of you, at
least, do. What'd you think, I think is the first question that I'm trying
to raise here. It made some nice points about how J.D.'s isolation is a
bit odd and about how we (his fans) sort of protect that isolation in an
odd way but how that at the same time (and I'm paraphrasing here 'cause,
like I said, I don't have it in front of me) "we don't really want to know
what Salinger eats for dinner," which, if I remember correctly, involves a
lot of peas.
Dave