Re: Growing Pains
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:23:12 +1000
Is this true??? I've never come across this anecdote in quite a few years
of Salinger scholarship. Where did you hear it? I'm always interested in
alternative titles for the books we know and love (The High Bouncing Lover
for The Great Gatsby springs to mind (: ) but I hadn't heard this one!
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
@ THE ARTS HOLE
www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
THE INVERTED FOREST
www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
> Anyway, in the August Biblio there's an article about one Bernard
> Harlan, a writer who couldn't get published to save his life yet had
> this incredible talent for titles and has named most of the truly
> significant published pieces of post world war two letters. The story
> goes he was getting drunk with his old friend Norman Mailer one night
> after he'd just finished his great war book but couldn't think of a
> title. After a few frozen boilermakers Harlan blurted out "The Naked and
> the Dead." A few weeks later JD Salinger called Mr. Harlan and asked him
> if he'd read this book of his called "Growing Pains" which he returned
> to JDS with the note "Catcher In The Rye" attached to it.