The J.D. Salinger vault

[Cugalabanza]

So, do you think we’ll ever see anything come of those decades spent toiling in secrecy? Supposedly there were a number of completed works found after he died. I kind of thought we’d hear something about it by now. Maybe the silence says something about the quality.

[Pete]

I am curious too. Is is eventual that they get published

[Pete]

A bunch of phonies will watch it

[ieatcrayonz]

This will have the same thing as Al Capone's vault and King Tut's vault.

 

Bupkus.

[UConn James]

Newsweek: Salinger like you've never seen him

 

Salerno’s disdain for inauthenticity—if a Kindle counts as such—is more or less his mission statement for what he calls “the very definition of a passion project”: writing, funding, and directing a two-hour documentary, Salinger, and an 800-page biography, The Private War of J. D. Salinger, co-written with David Shields. The pair of forthcoming works are as shrouded as their subject, but Salerno hopes they will be the definitive word on the writer. “We’ve been sifting through all this new material to contextualize this giant of American literature,” he says of the 15,000 pages of interview transcripts and more than 100 personal photos he’s amassed. “You’re going to see a very different Salinger than you’ve read about for five decades.”

[Nanker]

This will have the same thing as Al Capone's vault and King Tut's vault.

 

Bupkus.

Yeah, what if it turns out he didn't really write "A Catcher in the Rye", but he stole it from an old college chum who died young. You know - like the guy in the book. Could be why he never wrote another lick. Hiding from the truth, afraid of being revealed.

[WVUFootball29]

Yeah, what if it turns out he didn't really write "A Catcher in the Rye", but he stole it from an old college chum who died young. You know - like the guy in the book. Could be why he never wrote another lick. Hiding from the truth, afraid of being revealed.

 

That would make for a good book.

[UConn James]

J.D. Salinger letters show "warm," "affectionate" side

 

Previously unseen letters from "The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger show the kind of "warmth" and "affection" not often associated with someone who is seen as an eccentric recluse, a university said on Thursday.

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In the manuscripts, Salinger was honest about his dislike of publishers but said he continued to work on his writing, and in 1997 was considering publishing a short story, "Hapworth 16, 1924," which appeared in The New Yorker in 1965, as a book.

[Nanker]

I still like my theory.