According to a fascinating profile of the writer/editor William Maxwell, in this week's New Yorker, there is this little blip: "As far as how other writers regarded his opinion, when J.D. Salinger finished "Catcher in the Rye," he drove to the Maxwells' house in the country and in the course of an afternoon and evening read it to them on their porch." Ah, for a tape recorder at the right time.... --tim o'connor