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Exploring the Catcher in the Rye
Suzanne Morine's fabulous site dedicated to CR
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The Holden Server
a CR site which explains why it does not exist any more (i.e. for legal
reasons) - yet definitely worth visiting
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Letters to J.D.Salinger
A (guest)book of open letters to Salinger, which was published in 2002.
The book contains letters both from famous people (e.g. Paul Auster and
Sherman Alexie) and from "normal" people who wrote into that guestbook.
Another reason to go to that site: The cover of the book is wonderful - you see
Salinger's mailbox (a photo of the real thing, as the editor told me). Looks
very symbolic and all...
SEE RIGHT COLUMN!
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Holden Caulfield's Shrine
A very personal approach to a fictional character
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Catcher in the Rye
Homepage
a CR page from the Netherlands
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Shimonoseki: A Catcher
Page
CR page from Japan
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Yahoo:
Salinger
Yahoo's Salinger department currently has 7 links plus 4 on CR
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City
Honors JDS Page
lots of links
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There is a very good essay by Eric Lomazoff about lots of aspects of CR on the
Internet, but in May 2001 he asked me to remove the link. I complied - with
regrets.
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Fringeware:
Salinger
Biography, major works, etc
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Catcher
Page: Resources and Activities for High School Readers
Interesting, often "visual" page, including photos of the carousel
in Central Park, etc
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It's all fun & games till
someone loses a rye
Good grief! This page goes chronologically through
lots of lengthy quotes (!) from CR and tries to analyse them in an often
humorous (or sarcastic) way. Very detailed, worth visiting
.
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Cyberessays: The style
of JDS
Essay on Salinger's style
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2learn:
various links
Offers a number of links to various aspects of CR
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Bananafish
Easily the most comprehensive site about all kinds of aspects referring
to Salinger and his works
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Cartoon part 1
and Cartoon part
2
Cute cartoon version of CR - in fact, it might remind you of Fisher
Price Toys...
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Salinger
and copyright problems
Recommended bananafish/Salinger.org subpage for anyone interested in Salinger's
insistence on his copyright in connexion with the internet
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JDS FAQ
very informative site (not only for Bananafish Mailing List fish) including
details about Salinger's biography, bibliography, etc etc - run by Sundeep
Dougal, a prominent bananafish
.
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You can browse in the archives of the Atlanta
Journal/Constitution and find very interesting articles if you type
"catcher in the rye" into the search box, e.g. about Mark David Chapman,
lots of items concerning censorship of CR (latest case: 1997), etc.
However, there is one tiny drawback: you get the headings of
those articles, but if you want to have a look at them, it will cost you
$6 (for 20 items or 24 hours)...
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There is a place called FinalChapter.com where
someone has rewritten the last chapter of CR. In
the introduction he says:
"Replacement for chapter:
26
Author comments:
Thought the original ending was dull and lacked a
certain punch. This is my attempt!"
Now, I do not think this ghostwriter has even
remotely succeeded
in
a. creating a better ending and
b. imitating
Holden's style,
but it is an interesting idea as
such.
Therefore, if you are interested, go to An
alternative ending to CR
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The
New York Times has a special SALINGER archive.
You have to register first, but it is free of
charge - and it is worth seeing.
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ClassicNotes
has lots of useful things about CR: summaries,
analyses, a quiz, etc etc
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There is a MAILING LIST about Salinger and his works on the internet.
If you want to join those fish go to this Bananafish
pond.
Also, these guys run a Bananafish Mailing
List Archive which you can search for all kinds of topics discussed in
recent years...
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There are a number of good Salinger links on the Epopteia
page (one of them to this very site ;-)
Also, in the lower right corner of that page, you can find an interesting
cartoon of Salinger sitting in a restaurant (?) eating doughnut holes - probably from
Esquire
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A guy from the Netherlands had an interesting idea: he put up a site on which
you can find Covers of The Catcher
in the Rye
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At campusnut.com
you get interesting information about various aspects of CR (also about other
literary works).
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At www.timepix.com you'll find interesting
photos/pictures of Salinger - once you've registered.
Might be a good idea to
search for "salinger NOT pierre" (that's his son).
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Cliffsnotes
provides some interesting information about theme, setting, character, plot, etc
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David Abrams wrote an interesting Tribute
to the Catcher at epinions
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IN THIS COLUMN I RECOMMEND
SECONDARY LITERATURE REGARDING SALINGER AND/OR THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.
FIRST, THOUGH, TWO SPECIAL LINKS:
If you want to get an idea of
what books are available at amazon.com, use the search box below and type
for example "catcher in the rye " or "j d salinger".
If you live in Germany - like myself - you can use the amazon.de
search box below. You may select BÜCHER or US-BÜCHER first.
PS:
At amazon.de you don't
even need a credit card.
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Warren French, J.D.Salinger, Revisited (1988)
a very resourceful book about CR - and the short stories
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Ian Hamilton, In Search of J.D.Salinger (1988)
The biographical book that Salinger tried to prevent from being published
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W.P.Kinsella, Shoeless Joe (1982)
The novel which the movie Field of Dreams was based on.
In contrast to the film, you'll actually meet J.D.Salinger here as a (non)fictional
main character ...
(I wonder whether Salinger himself has read the book and what he thinks
about the way he is depicted here)
PS. See also # 6 on my EXTERNAL ASPECTS PAGE!
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Looks like an interesting new book has just been published:
if you go to Greenwood
, you'll see that since Oct 30, 1999, the following book should be available:
Understanding The Catcher in the Rye
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents, by
Sanford Pinsker and Ann Pinsker (Literature in Context Series, The Greenwood
Press)
Aspects discussed:
-- Literary Analysis
-- Censorship of CR
-- America's Post-War Culture
-- Preparatory Schools
-- Holden Caulfield at the Movies
-- Holden on the Analyst's Couch
-- Index
There is only a minor problem: It costs $39.95 (at amazon.com). But
then now again, it's Christmas time...
Dec 24,1999: I just gave it to myself as a Christmas present
- and I'll have to admit it:
it's worth the money
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Bananafish rumours have it that Peggy Salinger, JDS's daughter, is writing
her memoir, at age 43, apparently outlining her
childhood and her relationship with her father.
Scheduled to be published in late 2000.
It's called The Dream Catcher.
July 27, 2000: Margaret Salinger's Dream Catcher is embargoed until
September 7, when it will be published in the United States, but already
tantalising extracts are beginning to surface in America. Pocket Books have
begun circulating portions of the book to carefully selected literary reviewers.
In a four-page introduction, the younger Salinger, 44, writes: "I grew up
in a world both terrible and beautiful, and grossly out of balance." She
continues: "My father, a writer of fiction, is a dreamer who barely can tie
his own shoelaces in the real world, let alone warn his daughter she might
stumble and fall. In real life, when he chooses to make himself available, he
can be funny, intensely loving, and the person you most want to be with."
However, she adds: "To get in the way of his work, to interrupt the holy
quest, is to commit sacrilege."
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The Burglar in the Rye - what kind of title is that?!
It's the title of Lawrence Block's new mystery novel, with an obvious
allusion to CR. If you go to this
address at amazon.com , you'll get detailed reviews of the book, including
remarks from the author himself, e.g. "People always ask me where I get
my ideas.... The genesis of the idea for The Burglar in the Rye
is easy to trace. In February of 1998, I read two newspaper stories within
a week of each other. First, Joyce Maynard, realizing that the world yearned
to know the story of her life, had decided to write a tell-all book about
her relationship with J D Salinger, thus invading the privacy of one of
the two Most Reclusive Authors in America. Next, Candida Donadio, a literary
agent, was reported ready to sell all her letters from her former client,
Thomas Pynchon, thus violating the privacy of the other Most Reclusive
Author. ... So I combined the two writers and the two outrages..."
And Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Rather like an Agatha Christie
novel narrated by Basil Fawlty, or a game of Clue organized by Monty Python."
Sounds pretty good, eh?
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Some Bananafish mailing list members point out there is an interesting
novel by Marianne Wiggins called Almost Heaven. Here is a
part of a review you get when you go to this
address at amazon.com :
"It seems no accident that the narrator ... is named Holden. Like his
literary predecessor in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, this edgy twentysomething
war correspondent is also a protector of lost innocence, or at least a
seeker of grace in a world gone brutal. Done in and emotionally damaged
by a stint in Bosnia, Holden escapes back to the U.S. at a time when a
rage of bad weather - tornadoes, heat waves, hurricanes - grips the
nation and portends his immersion in a relationship of cyclonic intensity..."
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There is a new biography of Salinger written by Paul Alexander (J.D.
Salinger: A Biography). If you go to this
page at amazon.com, you'll get lots of controversial reviews of the
book...
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PS. Don't forget to click on the book cover
in order to enlarge it, it's very thought-provoking...
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There is a new book by Pam Steinle:
In Cold Fear : The Catcher in the Rye Censorship
Controversies and Postwar American Character
Minor problem: it costs $45...
However, if you go to the following address
at amazon.com, you'll get a very long extract from the introduction (I mean
VERY).
(see also #10 in my External Aspects)
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LETTERS TO J.D. SALINGER
by
Chris Kubica (Editor), Will Hochman (Editor)
In this newly published book (May 2002), editors
Chris Kubica and Will Hochman present a
collection of "Dear Jerome" missives
written by a mix of well-known writers and critics
as well as teachers, students, and everyday
readers. Contributors include Stewart O'Nan, Tom
Robbins, Sherman Alexie, and David Shields.
Amazon.com
Price: $17.47
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Jan 2003: I hear there is a new book about Salinger:
Eberhard Alsen's A Reader's Guide to J.D.
Salinger
The chapters address categories like "Critical Reception,"
"Narrative Structure and Point of View," "Characterization and
Style," "Settings and Symbols" and "Themes and
Interpretations."
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July 2004: The Snatcher in the Pie by Ben
Jamieson, Saguaro & Tumbleweed Press, 2004 - 234 pages, Hardcover
Supposed to be a parody on the Catcher - but a horrible one, so don't buy it!
(see note)
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NOTE:
Sorry - that was just a joke - but I do believe the book
should be written ;-)
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