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We Do Really Want to Hear About It
The death of J.D. Salinger at the age of 91 has reignited a cultural conversation that hasn’t really stopped since the famously reclusive author’s last published story appeared in the New Yorker more than forty years ago. Who was Salinger and why did he stop publishing his work? Why has every generation of post-WWII readers responded so strongly and consistently to his most famous creation, the smartass drop-out Holden Caulfield? And what has Salinger been working on behind the walls of his secluded New Hampshire compound for all these years? Will the unpublished works, should they ever be released, be any good?