Re: BAND OF SALINGER'S SOLDIERS

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 09:27:21 -0700 (MST)

Actually a number of famous writers have been part of the project and
I've been asked to write the forward to the book--there's already been
some publisher interest and my guess is that when joyce maynard comes out
with her salinger book, this book will cook with it...pointing to Stephen
Foskett's page as evidence of this list's intelligence may have been true
a while ago, but I see less of his kind of scholarship on our list and I
think that putting down Chris Kubica's project as being inferior to us is
false snobbery.  Will

On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Tim O'Connor wrote:

> 
> > somebody wax mature and make a good point, not on behalf of the moron,
> > but just to sort of invoke reality; to distill the worry.
> >
> > if not, let's talk about a way to take this guy out.
> 
> I have no desire to speak in defense of the project, but it's a "book" that
> doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon.  (Would you pay for such a
> text?  Can you imagine a publisher laying out an advance for this?)  To
> make a stink about it would lend it more credibility than it presently has.
> Just let it be.  It will croak on its own.
> 
> A friend of mine was on the receiving end of something similar.  He
> published a popular book with his email address in it, and since his
> specialty is a very specific type of science, he found himself getting
> inundated with email of the level of messages we just saw: kids doing book
> reports, students who didn't want to go to the library, people who wanted
> to touch for the sake of touching.
> 
> For a long time it was a drain on his professional and personal life, until
> he made a decision: Ignore it all.  And now he does.  And his life is a lot
> better for it.
> 
> The point is that while the fellow putting this together may think it a
> worthwhile project, the content speaks for itself.  I strongly doubt that
> Our Old Man of the Mountain is going to be interrupted by it, or that
> agents will be killing each other to peddle it.
> 
> For anybody who thinks that Salinger readers on the Internet are a bunch of
> nitwits (or insert your favorite derogatory term here), there are the web
> pages for this list and there is the excellent Stephen Foskett page, all of
> which say more than any "fighting words" could say.
> 
> --tim
> 
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