Subject: Re: god help me
From: no tedigo (rygar2000@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 01:59:42 GMT
I would love to read new novels
by young writers with Salingers
influence. Maybe YOU could do it
(or me, but my grammar sucks!).
I promess IŽll buy your books!!!
If you decide to do it: Good luck!! ^_^
Merry Christmas to all!!!!!!!!!
>From: "Jive Monkey" <monkey_jive@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>Subject: god help me
>Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:49:35 -0500
>
>greetings from an amateur chiropodist!! (i see you're looking at my feet)
>i have been reading and re-reading salingers works for years, and all i'm
>sure of is that i wish to hell that he'd publish something new. i mean, if
>he's been writing this whole time, since 1965, he must be sitting on a damn
>mountain of manuscripts. just how "vicious" is the publishing business?
>maybe i don't want to know. and couldn't he be just as private if he
>published every once in a while? i know that if he broke his silence now
>it
>could start a damn three ring circus, but not being around at all can be
>even more conspicuous than showing your (literary) face every now and then.
>the celebrities that paparazzi aren't interested in photographing are the
>ones that don't run from the cameras. i may be looking at this the wrong
>way, but it seems like he's trying to reenter the womb of anonymity, and
>that seems like a non-starter given the following he's created. he's like
>the elvis of literature ("i saw jds in kalamazoo, and i'll tell ya, he's
>still got it"). does he even approve of having a following? probably not.
>does anyone have a copy of 22 stories that i could borrow? i'll give it
>back, and i swear i won't photocopy the whole thing. i was trolling around
>for a copy and saw it go on ebay for $380.00!!! is it really worth that
>much? you could read all those stories in a library for free, right? of
>course this is a country where a guy can play baseball for $25 million a
>year, so what should i expect? i don't know. i'm just mad because i
>didn't
>get it. ah, well, so it goes.
>
>"i can't believe that we would lie in our graves"
>
>andy stewart
>imperial beach, ca
>
>ps was dickie briganza the name of a character in "the talented mr ripley?"
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