Subject: Re: Reference to JDS by Paul Thomas Anderson
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 11:33:05 EDT
heh...funny thing...one question I was asked on the radio was, "Why isn't
Salinger more popular around academia?"
I said, "Because he's a white male."
:)
Jim
Micaela wrote:
>
> Will...you're in an English professor?(rhetorically asked) Very
> interesting. I always assumed that profs eschewed Salinger, especially his
> less "mainstream" work (i.e. everything other than Catcher). Anyway, I
> would just like to say that as an English major I am very relieved (and
> elated) to find a professor who appreciates and connects with the odd
> intricacies of the Glass family. Maybe I'm just at the wrong school.
>
> -Micaela
>
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>
> Oh...man...I'd forgotten the brother's name in Ocean was Kenneth, not Allie
> :)
>
> Jim
>
> Will Hochman wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Jim...there's plenty of evidence that Salinger
> > experimented with Caulfields in his early uncollected and unpublished
> > stories. In "Ocean Full of Bowling Balls," for example, Kenneth
> > Caulfield's death plays out some of what we can imagine of Allie's
> > death. I like this story very much and suspect that Salinger kept it
> > unpublished because it does not support the final Caulfield family
> > version. will
> > --
> > Will Hochman
> >
> > Associate Professor of English
> > Southern Connecticut State University
> > 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> > 203 392 5024
> >
> > http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
> >
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