On Thu, Nov 6, 2003, tim@roughdraft.org said:
>> And I hope Salinger's unpublished 30 page defence
>> was in response to something other than the Thurber book.
>
>It was: As I recall, it was written in response to a long piece by
>Tom Wolfe (him of the white suits, not of Look Homeward, Angel) in
>about 1965, in the New York Herald-Tribune's Sunday supplement.
My silly mistake, doing this from memory.
The fact is that Salinger responded to the Wolfe article BY TELEGRAM.
This was not what prompted the rejected essay.
According to bibliographical sources, he submitted an essay about Ross,
Shawn, and the New Yorker to Saturday Review in 1960. It was rejected,
according to Donald Fiene, "because of its length and unusual style," and
was "an open-letter essay, 25-30 pp."
I have no other details about it.
This one really nags at me. More than any of the other unpublished and/
or lost material, this is one work I'd really be eager to read.
Sorry for the confusion in the earlier message about Wolfe and his "Tiny
Mummies."
As far as I know, there's no record of what Salinger's telegram said, and
there's no trace of it, to my knowledge.
--tim
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