I was just looking through some old papers when I was delighted to come across an article I clipped out of the Sydney Morning Herald of Saturday March 1st 1997 entitled `What's the Catch?'. I think it's an adaptation of an overseas article (it doesn't mention if it's a reprint or not - it only says it's by `Alan Atwood, in New York'). I was even more delighted to find a familiar name quoted : `Will Hochman, a Salinger expert at the University of Colorado ...' (ah, finally I can point to the newspaper and tell my parents `Hey! I *know* that guy!' (: You probably remember the interview(s) you gave around this time Will but I don't know if you knew your words made it to Australia! I was particularly interested in the fact that you described Hapworth a postmodernist text. I'd never thought of Salinger in those terms before (although we did have Pynchon on our curriculum in Postmodernism last year), but it's certainly got my mind ticking over. When I think about it though ... a lot of the debates that have been raging lately have basically been postmodern but no one's actually named them as such. As far as I can remember this article is substantially the same as many that came out in those heady days when we actually believed Hapworth was going to be published ... (seriously - this is Salinger we're talking about, did any of us expect it to all go on without a hitch?) If I can find the Sydney Morning Herald web archives (and there are probably some on the net somewhere) I'll post a URL so you can all read this. There's also a caricature of Salinger sitting in front of a boarded up window looking rather chagrined (and rather, it must be said, like his picture on the Catcher sleeve which is the only one of him most of us have ever seen) at a wastepaper bin into which a 1924 calendar is crumpled ... nicely symbolic. Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest