Subject: Re: Article on Salinger
From: Malcolm Lawrence (Malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 1997 - 21:50:06 GMT
"3) (Mostly a Will question) Did you position yourself in the marketplace
mostly as a Salinger scholar? If so, how much of a market did you find
for one? Do you feel it was more advantageous to market yourself as a
(hmm... what term to use without upsetting the group) minor-major or
major-minor(?) author, than as a major author (Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner
etc.,)? Or, does everything really still boil down to the same thing:
publications, letters of rec., ability to teach a range of courses,
etc.,?"
Hasn't JDS' characters, nor JDS' motivations, taught you anything? Only
phonies try and "market" themselves. Like Yoda said "Don't try, just do.
There is no "try"." You need to go live in another country for awhile and
brainwash this "marketing" term away. You'll quickly find that only
Americans use it as a buzzword/synonym for how one chooses to live one's
life. The rather hoary implication being that anything one spends a lot of
time on is simply to eventually be able to hawk it. PT Barnum would be
proud of you.
Malcolm
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