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Obviously, I have no great sympathy for Salinger's privacy mania. If you crave total privacy, don't write books, and if you must, certainly don't publish them. And, for God's sake, lay off the missives. Furthermore, if absolute solitude is your thing, don't have relationships with other people, and surely don't have sex with them. Another good rule of thumb: don't have children. They eventually talk too. Salinger's daughter Margaret ("Peggy") is writing her own memoir about life with Daddy...
...other hand, you're like me, and you don't mind the glare of publicity, then write away! And begin treating everything you compose as if it will someday be published. And I mean everything. Devote real care and imagination to those communications you've typically taken for granted...
...then there is Hemingway's infatuation with Debba, a young Wakamba woman whom he seems inclined to take, in accordance with local customs, as a second wife. Mary notes, "I think it's wonderful that you have a girl that can't read nor write so you can't get letters from her." Such comments do not deflect Hemingway's attention from Debba's charms: "When we rode together in the front seat she liked to feel the embossing on the old leather holster of my pistol. It was a flowered design and very worn and old and she would...
Ending social promotion is part of an attempt to restore some value to the shredded America high school diploma, which cannot now assure anyone that the bearer can even read or write. DAN HAGEN Charleston...
...FADIMAN at the Book-of-the-Month Club, learning from him how to read. Bearing witness to his reports--he wrote one on every book he read for the club--and his discussions at the monthly meeting of the judges was like taking the world's best creative writing course. He was a humane critic, seldom unkind, with few foibles. (I once did hear him say, "Faulkner makes me giggle.") The books he loved most were those that bore two Fadiman standards: lucidity and a mind at work. He found those qualities most notably in a first novel...