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J. D. Salinger
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Squeat Mungry 
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Posted 28 January 2010 - 06:55 PM
Wow. I have sometimes wondered when he would go. Or how anyone would know when he did.
RIP
RIP
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Posted 28 January 2010 - 07:17 PM
no, but he was cover for many
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violation of expectancy as humor
this food left intentionally bland
and i swear that i don't have a pun
violation of expectancy as humor
this food left intentionally bland
and i swear that i don't have a pun
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Posted 28 January 2010 - 07:20 PM
The obituary has some interesting tidbits in it.
He wrote for 18 hours at a clip in his small, concrete studio. He hasn't published anything since 1965, yet there's a reservoir of unpublished work, intended to be published after his death.
His daughter believes he preferred the company of his characters to his family members, whom he often belittled.
He wrote for 18 hours at a clip in his small, concrete studio. He hasn't published anything since 1965, yet there's a reservoir of unpublished work, intended to be published after his death.
His daughter believes he preferred the company of his characters to his family members, whom he often belittled.
My only complaint was that if they need to charge me $30 because they're robbing the duck to pay the boar they might as well give me a more substantial portion of flour, water, and bits of meat.
Orik, on the pasta price at Hearth in NYC
Orik, on the pasta price at Hearth in NYC
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Posted 28 January 2010 - 07:34 PM
you kids getaway from my door!
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“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 28 January 2010 - 07:44 PM
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In the seclusion of his New Hampshire home, she wrote, her father took walks, maintained an exotic health diet and wrote stories to be published only after he died.
I want to know more about the Salinger diet.
And now I do!
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Friday, March 6, 2009
J.D. Salinger's Diet
Fruits and vegetables are the staples of a good diet. Also protein and fats. J.D. Salinger is now over 90 and his diet is very carefully controlled. He doesn't like meat cooked at high temperatures. He used to eat lamb patties cooked at a low temperature, according to Joyce Maynard. One time he went to dinner with friends and he refused to eat because the meat was cooked at too high a temperature. He would probably have loved these Plum trees.
J.D. Salinger's Diet
Fruits and vegetables are the staples of a good diet. Also protein and fats. J.D. Salinger is now over 90 and his diet is very carefully controlled. He doesn't like meat cooked at high temperatures. He used to eat lamb patties cooked at a low temperature, according to Joyce Maynard. One time he went to dinner with friends and he refused to eat because the meat was cooked at too high a temperature. He would probably have loved these Plum trees.
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Posted 28 January 2010 - 08:04 PM
RIP
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yes sir... i get sad when i don't cook
-- Daniel, December 13, 2011
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 04:54 AM
QUOTE(Lippy @ Jan 28 2010, 10:35 PM) 
The appearance of a Salinger story in The New Yorker was a major literary event.
An observation made vivid by Gay Talese in this short, smart talk piece in the Observer - about the first thing I've read which brought home to me the reason Salinger should be missed.
It's striking, isn't it, that in comparison with other Goodbye threads about writers, no-one has had much to say about Salinger's ranking as a writer, his importance, influence and so on? I have just been turning over in my mind the longer term popular and critical fate of Salinger and Louis Auchinloss, but I have no great conclusions to share.
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 05:07 AM
i just don't want to judge a guy by his cliff notes
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 08 February 2010 - 01:24 PM
I have always been a big fan. "For Esme with Love and Squalor" and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" are tremendous short stories.
Catcher in the Rye cannot be appreciated as it should because of the manner in which it became a cult phenomenon and then a massive pop culture icon years after its initial publication. It is nearly impossible to see the book for what it was and without the massive and distorted context that developed subsequently.
When you read "Big Two-Hearted River" by Hemingway and "For Esme" by Salinger, you see two masters addressing post traumatic stress disorder after war in a way not seen before in literature.
I don't know much about what became of Salinger after is reclusive retirement, but I am glad to hear that we will see more of his work now.
Catcher in the Rye cannot be appreciated as it should because of the manner in which it became a cult phenomenon and then a massive pop culture icon years after its initial publication. It is nearly impossible to see the book for what it was and without the massive and distorted context that developed subsequently.
When you read "Big Two-Hearted River" by Hemingway and "For Esme" by Salinger, you see two masters addressing post traumatic stress disorder after war in a way not seen before in literature.
I don't know much about what became of Salinger after is reclusive retirement, but I am glad to hear that we will see more of his work now.
