Re: finding Salinger's new book
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:55:59 +1000
> I think I might have brought this up before, but I don't think I got any
> responses, so I'll bring it up again: Why is Salinger (supposedly...)
> publishing this book? Is there some hidden secret behind it, or is he
simply
> publishing it because he feels it's an important part of the Glass epic?
I always figured that he realised enough people were willing to go out and
find it at their library and photocopy it - i.e. it was in some sort of
public circulation - so why not just go ahead and publish it? You may argue
that he hasn't done the same with his earlier `uncollected works' *but* he
has gone on record saying that he wishes those early works to die a natural
death. In some ways I was quite surprised the publication caused such a
ruckus - after all, it's only a reprint, not a new story, and those
dedicated enough to Salinger to go and buy it would probably already have
searched it up in one form or another anyway.
Camille
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