Dear Will, Where is your review coming out/ Can you post a copy on this list or send it by email? All the best. Roberta Russell WILL HOCHMAN wrote: > My review of _At Home in the World_ is coming out tomorrow and it's pretty > negative but I too think JM had a right to write the book--it's just not > very good, though it does offer some Salinger info that is apopos...for > example, JM describes a scene with champagne that harkens back to the > ending of "A girl I knew," and getting a sense of Mr. Salinger's > eccentricity was colorful...I guess I enjoyed news of the author even > though I knew it was hurtful to him...probably what i enjoyed most was > JM's inclusion of Salinger telling her how she writes gossip and nothing > of importance...I think JM is a phony with a fine hustle going and she's > milking it for all it's worth and I can't deny that I've been enjoying the > process...but at the same time I'm teaching a seminar where students are > mostly in Salinger texts and believe me, that's where the real fun > is...will