Pity that, other than short stories, this is #JDSalinger’s only full length novel 8.5/10 #TheCatcherintheRye

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 8 April 1950, #JDSalinger’s classic short story, “For Esme—With Love & Squalor,” was first published in The New Yorker.

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

75th Anniversary 📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 16 July 1951, #JDSalinger's classic novel THE CATCHER IN THE RYE was first published by Little Brown and Company in 🇺🇸

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 16 July 1951, #JDSalinger's classic novel THE CATCHER IN THE RYE was first published by Little Brown and Company in 🇺🇸

‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: #TheCatcherInTheRye at 75

#JDSalinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist #JosephO’Connor to be a writer.

He reflects on why this story of a disaffected teenager remains as fresh and transgressive as ever

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📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 31 January 1948, #JDSalinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" was published in the #NewYorker.

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Martin Buber’s, “Ich und Du,” “ The Way of Man;” JDSalinger’s, “Catcher In The Rye,” Heinlein’s, “Stranger In A Strange Land,” and Zinn’s, “A People’s History of the United States.”
For starters…

"As you damned well know, we never change much in our hearts."

📖 #OTD in #Literature 19 June 1965, #JDSalinger’s epistolary novella "Hapworth 16, 1924" occupied nearly the entire issue of The New Yorker. It was Salinger's final original work published during his lifetime.

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 31 January 1948, #JDSalinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" was first published in the #NewYorker. It was later published in "Nine Stories" (1953).

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