Re: BANANAFISH digest 85
Bananafi@aol.com
Mon, 01 Sep 1997 10:36:55 -0400 (EDT)
hi all,
i read this list with great interest, but i suspect i am the oldest person on
it. i remember the 1950s, and believe me, it was not "easy" or "a cliche" to
be young, single and pregnant in those years. the difference in our culture
then, when compared with today (or for that matter just a decade later) is
extraordinary. i have no idea what salinger was thinking when he wrote (nor
can anyone but he himself). what is extraordinary about his stories is that
so many people are so drawn to them, have ideas about them, want to talk
about them, so many years after they were written. truly great short stories
always have this response.
keep up your wonderful discussions here. they are great. and look for a new
short fiction literary magazine (at your local bookstores sometime in
mid-late october, called, appropriately enough, bananafish.
ellen b.
bananafi@aol.com