Re: Salinger criticism
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 12:21:47 -0700 (MST)
I think it's Natalie Goldberg who authors bones (happy halloween you
salinger spooks!) and I'd add another book, _On Writing Well_ by william
zinnser to a list of helpful writing texts...
I will also direct you to run, don't walk to Eberhard Alsen's book,
_Salinger's Glass Stories as a composite novel_. It's harder to find but
_A
Religious Response to The Existential Dilemma in the fiction of JD
Salinger_ by Elizabeth Kurian (thank you sonny--are you still listening?)
but it may be worth it since she is probably got salinger's
religion/spiritual ideas most centrally in focus. I'm also fond of some
criticism by Bernice and Sanford goldstein but like rosen (whose work I
defnintely can not endorse), they limit their thinking to zen. (if limited
thinking zen at all...)
will
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Susan.E.Pearson-1 wrote:
> Thanks to a recent rereading of Franny and Zooey as well as reading
> Writing Down the Bones by some author whose name escapes me now, I have
> wanted to find out more about Eastern philosophy which is so prevalent
> in JDS's writings. Can anyone direct me to some good beginning reading
> on it all?
>
> By the way, Writing Down the Bones is a great book for anyone who is an
> aspiring writer. I read the whole thing in one night and reread it the
> next day too. Moving and intelligent.
>
> Susan
>