NPR and Salinger

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I spent 45 minutes in our lovely studio which is used for the show 
"Anthem" as well as "Performance Today" and listened to novelist William
Kennedy discuss his contemporary, J.D. Salinger. It was wonderful. Kennedy was
so overwhelming that we focused mostly on him and his thoughts on Salinger,
the Glass family, and that perfect short story, "Perfect Day for Banana Fish."
Please do tune in this Saturday if "Anthem" is carried by your local station.

Kennedy said that there were so many important writers coming out with new
things in the post-war era but Salinger's stories in the NEW YORKER were "an
event". The author if "Ironweed" talked about how he had just reread all of
Salinger's stories recently and found such pleasure in them and that for his
birthday someone gave him "a mint copy of Catcher in the Rye."

I'll let yall hear Kennedy's own personal reflections on the author of my
favourite, "Franny". One thing I want to pass on. Kennedy said Salinger was so
deeply affected by the character of Seymour Glass that after he "brilliantly"
killed him off in 1948, he had to spend the rest of literary career (the
public years) writing about Seymour and reviving him.

Alphonse

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