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...AMERICAN REVIEW: NO. 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. In the precarious business of launching a new literary periodical, Editor Solotaroff aims midway between big names and big, unheralded promise. One highlight: Philip Roth's Jewish Blues, the best Jewish-family story since Salinger's Franny and Zooey...
After six years of painful, reclusive silence, Author J. D. Salinger, 46, has produced another story. It's no Catcher in the Rye or Franny and Zooey-just one more refraction through his magic Glasses in the form of a letter that Seymour Glass, the fictional family's presiding guru and ghost, wrote home from Camp Hapworth, Maine, at the tender age of seven. Published in The New Yorker, the note is introduced briefly by Family Historian Buddy Glass, who for years has been garrulously obsessed by the memory of his suicide brother. By the letter, Childe Seymour...
Salinger Franny and Zooey...
...place is full of jaunty poltergeists. Whenever the phone rings, the TV set changes channels. There are only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied...
Salinger, Franny and Zooey...