Re: rare salinger stories rejected...

So what are the chances of a civilian, like me, getting
at these archives. Do they really keep every story? Are
they protected from the public. I'd be interested to
know. It's sad because JDS doesn't want anything of his
published until 50 years after his death. I can't wait
that long.
>
> --- Will Hochman <hochmanw1@southernct.edu> wrote:
> > Kim, that reproduction of a Gus Lobrano rejection of
> > "The Boy in the
> > People Shooting Hat" was wonderful...thanks for
> > making me pull Yagoda
> > off the shelf...I suspect there's days of fun in the
> > New Yorker
> > Archives, will
> > --
>
> will,
>
> the thing that surprised me about that reproduction
> was the caption saying this was the story that
> salinger developed into 'the catcher'. from the
> letter one learns the name of the main character was
> 'bobby'. too bad that letter wasn't dated.
>
> i agree there must be riches to find within the
> archives. yagoda, i felt, delivered a tremendous
> amount of information in the relatively few pages
> devoted to jds. alexander in his 'biography'
> proclaims he's the first biographer to have access to
> the archives, and then hardly comes through with any
> substantive info from them. in fact, the best thing
> about his book was the cover.
>
> kim
>
>
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