J.D. Salinger is dead.  I suppose in some perverse way I’ve been waiting for this moment in hopes that there would be a flood of new Salinger material published after he was dead.  I’m a real charitable guy. Perhaps it’s all been destroyed.  At any rate, in this time when most are talking about Catcher in the Rye I can’t help but insist that Franny and Zooey is the better book.  By the way, Franny and Zooey was nominated for the National Book Award the same year that Percy won the award for The Moviegoer.

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