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...whatever reason, Salinger published just one more book, combining "Carpenters" and "Seymour," in 1963, though in a foreword he promised readers that more Glass stories were under way. Two years later there was that final long story in the New Yorker, called "Hapworth 16, 1924," which purports to be a letter home from summer camp by a wildly precocious 7-year-old Seymour. After that, the signal shuts down. Salinger was occasionally spotted in public but spoke publicly only on rare occasions...
...late October we hit the Internet, the bookstores, the phones. We soon stumbled upon Roger Lathbury, the man behind Orchises Press, the diminutive publishing house that Salinger has apparently chosen for the book titled Hapworth 16, 1924. (The title comes from a long short story originally published in The New Yorker...
...should be out in January." In our second, mid-January conversation, he said the book had been pushed back, but wouldn't divulge the cause of the delay. We pried him for details, but all he would tell us is that the book would be undedicated, contain only the Hapworth story and that only very minor changes had been made from its original publication...
...approach the Ides of March, still no sign of Hapworth. Yesterday, however, we got an e-mail from Lathbury confirming that the book "is definitately on and will appear." Thank heavens...
...purports to be the world's largest. I did my perfunctory search for works of J.D. Salinger, scanning the titles for something new. This, despite knowing full well I've read nearly everything he's ever published and several things he hasn't. But the impossible happens. Amazon.com lists "Hapworth 16, 1924" as a book to be released in January of 1997 by Orchises Press, and even though I've read the story (it was originally published in The New Yorker in June of 1965), it's certainly not without significance. Salinger is among the most reclusive...