Re: the literary life

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Wed, 23 Sep 1998 07:32:52 -0600 (MDT)

Yes Camille, that's what I've been saying...plus I don't understand why we
should expect Mr. Salinger to be wonderful or even typical...I don't want
to be under the type of microscope he's been under, and even Socttie who I
admire might not survive such close scrutiny without his fine image
tarnishing a bit...

I have to admit I enjoyed Salinger in Maynard's book because she brings
him to life on the page...like I enjoyed meeting him in WP Kinsella's
_Shoeless Joe_.  But I think both instances of Salinger on the page are
fiction and judging him as a person is simply not something I want to
do...

will

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Camille Scaysbrook wrote:

> 
> > 	I have no way of knowing how true is her description of his rage 
> > 	at her impending publication.
> 
> Of *course* he's angry. He's no longer a mystery man. We have penetrated
> the ivory tower and we've found no Gentleman of Shalott but an eccentric
> but essentially - or maybe the word should be `believable' - guy.
> 
> I found the Maynard book at my local esoteric bookstore today - I was very
> surprised, I didn't know it was out here yet and haven't seen any reviews.
> I only had a chance to flick through it but found a pretty amusing story
> about Salinger trying to smoke a salmon by sticking it down his chimney. (:
> 
> >  	But I suspect - on past form - if her 
> > 	report were really contestable he would already have contested it.  
> 
> But what could he contest? Like she said, it's her recollections, and
> there's no way of copyrighting those, short of lobotomy.
> 
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