Subject: Re: HC on today's NYTimes Editorial page
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 11:23:02 GMT
I'm reviewing admissions folders for my college, and it's interesting to
see that several students (probably 2-3, they were given the option of
writing about a book or literary figure) chose to write about The Catcher
in the Rye. I haven't seen any other book come up more than once.
Salinger is still alive and well. . .
Jim
Will Hochman wrote:
>
> Jonathan Goldstein's "City of Big Shoulders (and Readers)" discusses the
> reading project in Chicago involving a mass reading of one book. I think
> the first one was To Kill a Mockingbird and now they are considering the
> next book. Librarians aren't saying what it will be, and I doubt it will
> be Catcher (Chicagoans just don't understand New York--if they did,
> they'd move there! Cecilia, I love you too!). Anyway, here's the line
> about Holden and all: "So when a large, mustachioed man in a Bears cap
> sits beside me on the 66 bus to Pulaski and asks whether I think Holden
> Caulfield is crazy, he's going to be expecting some answers."
>
> I may be wrong, but I wondered if Catcher wasn't the most often alluded
> to novel in the NYTimes in the last 50 years or so...will
> --
> Will Hochman
>
> Assistant Professor of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> 203 392 5024
>
> http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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