tim,
i would be very interested in what is found in the book. i'll see if i can
check it out on my end as well.
it was my intent to do just the sort of thing you were talking about, pinning
down dates to certain salinger stories. it's harder than it seems sometimes,
and i'd appreciate any help or clues that i can get.
it's a project able to bring on big old headaches.
also, i have someone looking through princeton's salinger archives for the
table of contents paul alexander says is there for the young folks anthology
set in print in 1946. just in an effort to pin down some stories dates.
we'll see what they come back with.
>>> tim@roughdraft.org 11/04/03 07:43PM >>>
Has anyone happened upon this recent book?
Author: Weaver, Brett E.
Title: An annotated bibliography, 1982-2002, of J.D. Salinger / Brett E.
Weaver.
Physical Description: iii, 108 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher/ Date: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c2002.
LC Subjects: Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919- --Bibliography.
I located it on Amazon as a special order, but the price is (choke,
choke) $89.95, for a book that is only 108 pages! (Brett Weaver, if you
are a secret subscriber, please know that it's nothing personal, but I
just can't afford this.)
Luckily, I just checked the library catalog for the library I can use
through work, and they have a copy, although it's cataloged in the
Reference department, so I can't check it out and study it for any length
of time.
One screwy thing is the time period: 1982 to 2002? I would guess, then,
that I'm not going to find any hidden Salinger treasures cited; likely it
is focused on research (books and papers).
If anyone is interested, I'll report on what I find. But somehow I doubt
it will be as riveting as Michael Anello's JDS manuscript catalog from
several weeks ago....
By the way, I was looking through the most recent JDS bibliography prior
to this Weaver one, and saw quite a few story titles that were in
Michael's list. What makes it interesting from the perspective of dating
the missing stories is that there are cross-references to Salinger's
letters in which he mentions titles (or his correspondents mention them),
so it helps pin down windows during which the various stories could have
been written.
It's beyond my power to type anything substantial about all that right
now -- a big old headache has me in its grip -- but I will see what I can
do in the future.
And we'll see what this new Weaver bibliography is all about.
--tim
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