Vonnegut on Salinger

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I just went to a wonderful talk by Kurt Vonnegut at Cody's Books here in
Berkeley.  It was the best speech I've ever heard.  Anyway, here's a little
Salinger-relevant info from it.  Vonnegut was talking about 40 or 50 years
ago, when America still had a literary culture, when the TV wasn't around
and everyone read short stories.  Paraphrased:

"Salinger...he was the most envied, by all of us.  My God, we all wanted to
be him."

John

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