Subject: Re: Esquire Review
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 15:14:48 GMT
Gasp! What the heck is a post about SALINGER doing on THIS list? :)
Jim
Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> I like the cover of the book ... go to the website for more information.
>
> --C.
>
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> With Love & Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger
> by Kip Kotzen
>
> Read today's review in HTML at:
> http://www.powells.com/esq/review/2001_10_24
>
> A review by Brian Allnutt
>
> J. D. Salinger: the literary father figure whom many of us would
> have been content to have left behind in junior high. Too bad
> the recurring themes of his work -- suicide, loneliness, failure
> and questions of identity aren't limited to adolescence. It's
> been fifty years since The Catcher In the Rye was published, and
> his influence hasn't, for better or worse, started to wane. The
> essays in With Love and Squalor are, for the most part, smart
> and witty explorations of Salinger's role as a father to a generation
> of writers, and readers, who, as Thomas Beller writes in his essay,
> are going to "have to kill Daddy. Or love him. Or both."
>
> Alexander Hemon, Walter Kirn, Jane Mendhelsohn, and Emma Forest,
> writers who are aware of what it means to be writing both in the
> shadow and space of Salinger, contribute the smartest and most
> lucid essays in this collection of fourteen pieces. "(W)e were
> all fucked by Salinger," English novelist Emma Forest writes in
> her essay "Salinger's Daughter: Whining Bitch": "He never rang,
> he wouldn't return our calls and he didn't even acknowledge our
> presence. He left no scent on the pillow. He wasn't even that
> good in bed. But he did get all of us our jobs." What emerges
> here, more than anything else, is a sense of frustration: frustration
> with Salinger's popularity, his critics, and the pervasiveness
> of his influence, especially in first person narrative....
>
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