Subject: RE: Esquire Review
From: Peter please (horanp@kenyon.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 18:02:22 GMT
Honestly, I wish they had done the other Salinger series cover with the title
and multi-colored diagonal stripes in the corner. It's almost trademark
Salinger, and I love the fact that I can always recognize where my collection
of his books is in the vertical stack on the shelf.
Looks wonderful, though, and I'll definitely be on the lookout.
Peter
>===== Original Message From Cecilia Baader <ceciliabaader@yahoo.com> =====
>I like the cover of the book ... go to the website for more information.
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>--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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