rip JD Salinger

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Dead at 91. Just crossed our wire.
 

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I'd had no idea that Salinger was still alive. Rest in peace...
 

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He had a long life, and will be remembered by millions of readers.

The impression I got from knowing one of his children slightly was that he was a terribly unhappy man. I wish him peace.
 

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Is sad, but I think being terribly unhappy is just as sad. No one should have to live like that. RIP
 

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We had a Salinger thread about a year ago where he was in the news, suing some guy who was doing a spoof of Catcher in the Rye. If not for that thread from a year ago, I also would never have known the great recluse was still alive.

BTW -- there's another RIP Salinger thread in Roundtable.

Mods?? Thread merger somewhere or other perhaps?? (Duplicate threads always happen when it's the death of a writer.)
 

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Wow, I had no idea he was still alive.
 

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'Catcher in the Rye' Author J.D. Salinger Dies

LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584170,00.html

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"NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91."
 

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oh god, no. the reason i write. i love you, jd. rip.
 

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Something strikes me as being extremely sad about this:

In 1999, New Hampshire neighbor Jerry Burt said the author had told him years earlier that he had written at least 15 unpublished books kept locked in a safe at his home.

"I love to write and I assure you I write regularly," Salinger said in a brief interview with the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate in 1980. "But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it."


I hope his children publish the works...
 

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i have a huge collection of his short stories in a box in the bottom of my closet. dozens of them. i visit that box often.

man...this is crushing.
 

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Well, Jenny's a sweet young body, Jenny's seldom dry,
Draggled her petticoatie, comin' through the rye.
If a body meet a body comin' through the rye,
If a body kiss a body, need a body cry?

All the lassies have their laddies, Nane they say, have I;
But all the laddies smile at me, Comin' through the rye.
Well, Jenny's a sweet young body, Jenny's seldom dry,
Draggled her petticoatie, comin' through the rye.

If a body meet a body, comin' from the town,
If a body kiss a body, need a body frown?
If a body meet a body, comin' from the glen,
If a body kiss a body, need a body ken?

If a body meet a body comin' through the rye,
If a body catch a body, need a body cry?
All the lassies have their laddies, Nane they say, have I;
But all the laddies smile at me, Comin' through the rye.