Re: Yes, we have no Hapworth

Best Hapworth quotation I've ever read:

"Hapworth is worse than Yoko Ono's singing."

Kim posted a URL to an Updike review of _Franny and Zooey_ -- turns out it
wasn't on a New Yorker website, but was part of a website for a used bookstore
in the San Francisco area.

The woman who owns the bookstore wrote a brief bio of Salinger that was an
absolute riot with her editorializing. I loved it. I at first thought it was
a high school paper that had gotten online, but I swear this woman must write
EXACTLY like she talks. In some ways it seems to capture a genuine voice, in
other ways it just seems poorly written.

Still, it's worth it:

http://www.morrill.org/books/salbio.shtml

You should read the author's own bio and explanation of her bookstore...even
better :

http://www.morrill.org/books/sarah.shtml

Not to be missed :)

Jim

"D." wrote:

> For what it's worth, I never, for a millisecond, believed that Hapworth
> would ever see book publication while Salinger is alive. The notion that
> he'd publish this story, 37 years now down the proverbial pike, has always,
> to me, seemed a non-sequitor of mammoth proportions. Perhaps, like the
> alleged manuscripts in the Cornish vault, this will come to fruition only
> after J.D.'s death--with, of course, crystal clear instructions from beyond
> on how it will be released to the masses by the family or literary
> excutors. I am glad that Amazon finally has sent these notices and pulled
> it from its web site--no sense in playing on hopes any longer.
>
> D.
>
> At 08:44 AM 11/5/2002 -Kim Johnson wrote:
> >
> >--- lray <lray@centenary.edu> wrote:
> >> I wonder exactly who was responsible for this
> >> decision. Did Amazon just get
> >> tired of waiting or did ole' J.D. decide to hell
> >> with it or did his publisher
> >> decide it wasn't worth publishing? Just wondering.
> >
> >good questions.
> >
> >though i don't think the publisher would decide it
> >wasn't worth publishing--perhaps *they* got tired of
> >waiting.
> >
> >and the larger question in my mind is why, in the
> >first place, did salinger, after 30+ years, decide to
> >publish a book. especially if 'publishing is an
> >invasion of my privacy', etc.
> >
> >kim
>
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