Re: a salinger reading

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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Bernd Wahlbrinck wrote:

> tim wrote:
> >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 inthe 
> >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
> 

uhm, don't you mean Wordsworth?  Didn't he finish the Prelude and run over
to Coleridge's house and tourture him with the whole thing?

-j

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