Subject: early days
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 11:55:01 EST
Quoting myself:
'... unless in what were then pretty rare copies of
the New Yorker....'
I've been thinking about this & wonder were we all that
parochial in dear, dirty Dublin in those days. Kelly was
very much in the way of knowing the latest literary chic
- & at that time Dublin was almost as close to New York
or Paris as to London. (Certainly the unknown 'Parisian'
writer Sam Beckett was all the rage with the hotshot French
speakers.) This was more than 5 years, after all, since we'd all
been moved by the idea of John Hersey being given the entire
New Yorker magazine for his Hiroshima piece. And even
youthful sophisticates like me had heard all about Harold Ross
& Thurber.
If Salinger was beginning to be a name in NY, it's not all
that strange that the news was beginning to reach the literary
set in Dublin. The date I'm talking about was two years after
A Perfect Day & a year after For Esme.
Have we any idea how long had Salinger been 'someone' before
the appearance of the Catcher?
(And where did I get the delusion that extracts from The Catcher
itself appeared in some form or other in LIFE magazine?)
Scottie B.
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