bananafish OR banana fish
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:57:52 -0700
[If this has been posted, sorry]
"At 'The New Yorker', there had been some discussion among the editors about
whether the word 'bananafish,' a word Salinger made up, should be printed as
one word or as two. On January 13, 1948, Salinger wrote to Gus Lobrano, a
highly respected rising star at the magazine who edited the story, to tell
him that it should be spelled as one word because it looked more nonsensical
that way."
-- "Salinger: A Biography," by Paul Alexander, Renaissance Books, 1999 (p.
125)