If you’re tuning in for the best of the Big Read, prepare for a disappointment. This week, there is genuine news from book world: Salinger is dead. By Hattie French
Of course the news reports have gone on and on about two things only: the classic status (with occasional plot summaries) of The Catcher in the Rye, and Salinger’s notorious hermit-like existence.
Two things wrong with this approach, in my view:
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