J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn deaths boost ‘Catcher,’ ‘People’s History’ sales

Thank you Mr. Salinger, for such a great read. Cheers.

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A Recluse– Well, Not to His Neighbors – New York Times
Malcom Strong at the Windsor Diner in Vermont, where JD Salinger would eat lunch alone. NH — His most famous character, Holden Caulfield, …

Salinger’s solitude, their source of pride – Boston Globe
CORNISH, NH – The word recluse became almost an honorific when JD Salinger moved here more than a half-century ago, attached to his name …

Forrester as Salinger– Now that’s a soup question – USA Today
The death of writer and recluse JD Salinger is reason enough to run this video from Finding Forrester in which Sean Connery plays a character based on the …

Howard Zinn and JD Salinger: Men of no apologies – tc(r): The College Reporter (blog)
27, it should by now be known to all that JD Salinger recently passed away of similar natural causes in his New Hampshire estate at the age of 91, …

How JD Salinger was scarred – New York Post
If anyone invented the teenager and his cargo of self-pity, tortured reflection and nonspecific alienation, it was JD Salinger. …

A Bad Day for Progressive Underdogs: RIP Howard Zinn and JD Salinger – Big Think
But it will also be remembered as the day America lost two of its most prominent literary figures: JD Salinger and Howard Zinn. …

Mourning J. D. Salinger: An Appreciation From a Glass Family Junkie – Huffington Post (blog)
Well, we hardly could have expected him to live forever, but I was still heartbroken to learn yesterday that reclusive author JD Salinger had died. …

In tribute to Salinger, a list of TV phonies – Globe and Mail
When JD Salinger died last week, there was the expected outpouring of commentary about his significance as a writer. Thousands of newspaper and online …

JD Salinger ’s death spawns tales of hidden books and one that got away – USA Today
The death of JD Salinger, whose first name in most accounts appears to be "reclusive," has set off a flood of remembrances as well as speculation about …

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RT @bigaon: Appreciation of J.D. Salinger – San Francisco Chronicle http://url4.eu/1HgDh
RT @truprecht: Geez, a lot of newspapers going with same Salinger photo. Lazy journalism.
Bunch of phonies mourn JD Salinger http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bunch_of_phonies_mourn_j_d
RT @seedlinghugger Reading J.D. Salinger Hooked on Yoga, Meditation, and a Macrobiotic Diet– http://tinyurl.com/ygpazfs
"Here Mr. Salinger was just Jerry…" A Recluse– Well, Not to J.D. Salinger’s Neighbors http://bit.ly/9uKo0L (via @nytimes)
celebrities today = complete publicity whores, something sublime abt way JD Salinger lived his life: http://bit.ly/dpN2Q8
What’s in J.D. Salinger’s safe– (author of "Catcher in the Rye"). He just died last week. http://bit.ly/bM1yAN
The Pilgrim Congress » An Ode to J.D. Salinger http://bit.ly/cA1SpB
Sorry we’re late; Idiotarod kept us busy yesterday. RIP JD Salinger. We run a Catcher in the Rye tour ! http://bit.ly/9dbDtY
RT @simondumenco: "A community of seriously hip observers is a scary & depressing thing." -Salinger (via Lillian Ross) http://bit.ly/9RBjkm
From a Teacher: I am proud to say that I was one of the last teachers to read Catcher with his students before Salinger http://url4.eu/1HnkZ
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Breaking News: Salinger

How J.D. Salinger was scarred
If anyone invented the teenager and his cargo of self-pity, tortured reflection and nonspecific alienation, it was J.D. Salinger. Yet Salinger’s progeny, some twisted (Mark Chapman and John Hinckley, each of whom brought a copy of The Catcher in the Rye to their murder missions), some decadent (Bret….

J.D. Salinger, 1919-2010
Say this for J.D. Salinger: Early on, he told his friends he was going to write the great American novel; with “The Catcher in the Rye,” he sort of did. But then he retired to a hermit-like existence in a remote New Hampshire home, writing only intermittently until his….

Rest In Privacy, J.D. Salinger
He lived on the other side of the world from Brangelina and Octomom. In a culture where people dream of fame for the sake of fame alone, the reclusive novelist, who died this week at 91, was the anti-celebrity..

WATCH: Renowned Author J.D. Salinger Dies
The 91-year-old Author of “The Catcher in the Rye” has died..

Reclusive author J.D. Salinger dies at 91
BOSTON (Reuters) – Reclusive U.S. author J.D. Salinger, who wrote the American post-war literary classic “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died of natural causes aged 91..

Meeting J.D. Salinger — Courtesy Of A Rainstorm
As a young man, Jim Krawczyk’s favorite writer was J.D. Salinger. And in the late 1960s, Krawczyk decided to take a road trip to meet his hero. But in Cornish, the small New Hampshire town where the reclusive author lived, nobody seemed to know Salinger..

JD Salinger: A guy you’d want to call up (but he wouldn’t take calls)
Not the beatnik you’d expect to write the novel that invented the 20th-century teenagerHolden Caulfield, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye, says that a good writer is someone who makes you feel you can call them up on the phone.JD Salinger’s work had that quality in spades, which made it all the more intriguing that he spent so many decades not taking calls from journalists, biographers and ” above all ” publishers.His silence and unwillingness even to be photographed made him a powerful mythical figure. Don DeLillo once wrote a whole novel inspired by a photo of Salinger fending off a photographer.Yet Salinger was not a man for avant-garde stunts. He made his name writing for the New Yorker in the legendary days when short story writers could command big bucks and big audiences.Nor was Salinger the kind of beatnik figure you’d expect to write the novel that invented the 20th century teenager ” at least not until he started taking an interest in Zen Buddhism and writing his last published stories. For all his marvellous grumbling, Caulfield was a privileged east coast prep schoolboy.Even so, Holden became a role model for several generations of disaffected teens. Ian Hamilton, Salinger’s first biographer, wrote that when he first read The Catcher he went around for months afterwards being Holden, and was annoyed to discover later that thousands had done the same.The fact that people felt that way was only partly to do with Holden’s appealing anti-phoney stance. It came down to Salinger’s ability to make sophisticated writing look like speech ” a harder thing to do than he made it seem.Salinger’s silence since 1965 has invited a lot of speculation.

J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91
Mr. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, turned his back on success and adulation..

Legendary Author J.D. Salinger Dies at 91
Author of coming of age classic ‘Catcher in the Rye’ died at his N.H.home..

Not That You Really Care, But Salinger Will Be Missed
If you really want to hear about it, author Susan Jane Gilman recounts her first memory of being introduced to J.D. Salinger: in her bed with Spaghettio’s and ginger ale, soaking in a short story. But you probably have better things to do..