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...Brautigan's most charming vignettes echoes the talent of a far greater contemporary writer. His "High Building In Singapore" anecdote is so similar to incidents in Salinger that it seems like emotional plagiarism. In Buddy Glass's epic letter to his brother Zooey in Franny and Zooey he describes a similar encounter with a little girl who was standing at the lamb chop counter with her mother...
This astringent strangeness allows Rogin to clown outrageously without losing control. Singer's parents invade his bedchamber one Sunday morning. His wife finds the conversation unproductive and resettles herself under the bed. The conversation continues, and then Singer gets out of bed and joins his wife. Zooey Glass and his mother come to mind. The slapstick works as well for Rogin as it did for Salinger...
...SALINGER--Acid isn't always apocalyptic. Sometimes it can be as calm, an knowing, as cozy and full of detail as a Salinger story. Here is the revelation that concludes Zooey...
...farce, then separates like fragments from a grenade. What Condon fans will enjoy are his extravagant prose arias, including the account of a typical McCobb breakfast. For rhapsodic and inventive list making* it is unequaled by anything since the Glass family's medicine cabinet in Franny and Zooey...
...REVIEW: NO. 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. In the precarious process of putting out a new literary periodical, Editor Solotaroff aims midway between big names and big, unheralded promise. One highlight: Philip Roth's The Jewish Blues, the best Jewish-family story since Salinger's Franny and Zooey...