new Salinger article + extraordinary photo
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Mon, 02 Feb 1998 21:29:16 -0500
For those of our subscribers who can get their hands on New York magazine,
the February 9th issue has a slightly lurid piece on pages 48-55, entitled
<cringe> J.D. Salinger's Women, by Paul Alexander. It is, um, a bit
sensationalistic and tasteless in spots, but it features a very intriguing
photograph from 1988, from, I believe, the two goons who ambushed him in
the parking lot of his supermarket. It shows his face as wonderfully
craggy, and (just in case you wonder) two or three pens in the breast
pocket of his sport coat. There's also the inevitable reprint of Lotte
Jacobi's portrait that was on the back of Catcher.
It's kind of revolting in the sense that it tries to play into the "Clinton
and the Intern" angle, but the photographs are fine; there's even a reprint
of the famous one we discussed a while back, where he's walking in his
bathrobe, with a walking stick, behind the famous woven-wood fence.
The article is salacious, in my fast estimation, but the pictures are quite
good reproductions.
Cheers (sorely needed after a glance at the piece)....
--tim