Kari, hi, I'm one of the college professors on this list and have the luck to be teaching a "Salinger Seminar" (English 493) with a very talented group of some of my university's best students. To be honest, it has taken me a long time to be able to teach such a course since becoming a college professor is not easy trick. However, I am lucky and was tapped by the folks at the u of southern colorado (in no small part for my interest in computers) and then after a few years, they let me offer my salinger seminar...hope this helps. BTW, I am working on developing a salinger seminar for students online... will ps: yes, I love the bathroom scene in zooey and yes, I sometimes think of buddy finishing up SAI and teaching... On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Lomanno wrote: > Camille wrote: > > > I guess the best writers are the ones who > > give the least impression that there's a lot of mechanics going on under > > the smooth skin of the story. Salinger's a master at this, when I first > > read TCIR I thought it was so wonderfully random; yet now I know how > > tightly structured it is in some ways. > > That, to me, is what makes Salinger my favorite author. He writes as if > he's talking to you personally, telling stories off the top of his head. > Yet when you read carefully you realize that every sentence, every word, > every LETTER has been painstakingly and meticulously chosen for a > certain purpose. > > One of my favorite scenes is in "Zooey" when Mrs. Glass is in the > bathroom while Zooey is taking a bath, and every tedious detail of their > conversation and movement is given. Page after page, the reader is > forced to remain in this painful scene, and although on the surface it > appears to be just a mother and son annoying each other , there is this > underlying tension that you can't name specifically, but it's definitely > there. This scene, to me, is one of the most important in the book, and > Salinger writes it as if it's completely irrelevant. That is the genius > of JD. > > I've really been enjoying our lively discussions, but it's nice to get > away from all the theorizing and just enjoy the texts. I have a > question: I know at least one of the list members is a college professor > teaching a class on Salinger, and I'm not sure who. Could you tell me > where you're teaching and how you came to teach a Salinger class? That > is one of my career aspirations when I graduate (to teach Salinger), but > there are no such classes in my area right now. I'm wondering how one > would go about petitioning to get a class like that started. > > --Kari Lomanno (there was nothing "mysterious" about my lack of a > signature; I just did not yet know the e-mail protocol!) >