Re: whit burnett

--- Will Hochman <hochmanw1@southernct.edu> wrote:
> Salinger's epilogue to Hallie and Whit Burnett's
> Fiction Writer's
> Handbook is short--less than two pages. Of note in
> this piece is the
> fact that he remembered a reading Whit Burnett did
> of Faulkner's
> "That Evening Sun Go Down." After blathering about
> how he should send
> Faulkner a letter, Salinger wrote "...that not once,
> throughout the
> reading, did Burnett come between the author and his
> beloved silent
> reader."

will's quotes got me to go back to the piece last
night. interesting to read something that didn't
sound like buddy glass was perched on jds's shoulder.

i did especially like:

"Mr. Burnett deliberately forebore to perform. He
abstained from reading beautifully. It was as if he
had turned his voice into paper and ink."

and in the handbook itself, there's a description of
the 1939 salinger:

"...there was one dark-eyed, thoughtful young man who
sat through one semester of a class in writing without
taking notes, seemingly not listening, looking out the
window. A week or so before the semester ended, he
suddenly came to life. He began to write. Several
stories seemed to come from his typewriter at once,
and most of these were published. That young man was
J. D. Salinger...."

--kim

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