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Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« on: January 28, 2010, 03:38:27 PM »
Seemed he chose to live a life of isolation in NH.  

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26185613/ns/today-the_new_york_times/?GT1=43001

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 But success, once it arrived, paled quickly for him. He told the editors of Saturday Review that he was “good and sick” of seeing his photograph on the dust jacket of “The Catcher in the Rye” and demanded that it be removed from subsequent editions. He ordered his agent to burn any fan mail.

In 1953 Mr. Salinger, who had been living on East 57th Street in Manhattan, fled the literary world altogether and moved to a 90-acre compound on a wooded hillside in Cornish, N.H. He seemed to be fulfilling Holden’s desire to build himself “a little cabin somewhere with the dough I made and live there for the rest of my life,” away from “any goddam stupid conversation with anybody.”

He seldom left, except occasionally to vacation in Florida or to visit William Shawn, the almost equally reclusive editor of The New Yorker. Avoiding Mr. Shawn’s usual (and very public) table at the Algonquin, they would meet instead under the clock at the old Biltmore Hotel, the rendezvous for generations of prep-school and college students.

He died of natural causes at 91.

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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2010, 03:44:52 PM »
There are lots of us recluse genius crazy types here in NH! ;D
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2010, 04:18:12 PM »
Salinger, required reading for us old guys.  I think I had to read "Catcher" in the 6th or 8th grade and was happy to do so.  Franny and Zoey as well.

A bit of a brilliant, strange, reclusive nutcase who people loved and hated depending on their moral fiber.

I might just read "Catcher" again for old times sake.  It's only been forty years.... ;)
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2010, 04:44:07 PM »
Quote from: LoveMyXds on January 28, 2010, 03:44:52 PM
There are lots of us recluse genius crazy types here in NH! ;D

Until 2012  :D

Quote from: Timothy on January 28, 2010, 04:18:12 PM
I might just read "Catcher" again for old times sake.  It's only been forty years.... ;)

Required reading for me as well.... but it's only been 35 years!!  ;D
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2010, 04:49:02 PM »
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Required reading for me as well.... but it's only been 35 years!! 


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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2010, 04:56:10 PM »
Does anyone know if it's reading material in today's gov't schools? Not college Lit. classes but actual High School, also Melville, Hawthorne, Paine, Thoreau, Whitman, Franklin?

Nevermind,....

Thankfully, it was required reading in the early 80's but I'm sure times have changed.....to you know, "My Two Daddy's", .... :'(
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2010, 05:03:59 PM »
Shooter,
Is will stay in NH to represent all the crazy, recluse genius types here in NH, and God willing, telecommute as Tom and TT's Assistant Red Button Pusher when their thumbs get tired!
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2010, 05:10:22 PM »
Quote from: twyacht on January 28, 2010, 04:56:10 PM
Does anyone know if it's reading material in today's gov't schools? Not college Lit. classes but actual High School, also Melville, Hawthorne, Paine, Thoreau, Whitman, Franklin?

Nevermind,....

Thankfully, it was required reading in the early 80's but I'm sure times have changed.....to you know, "My Two Daddy's", .... :'(
They are required reading for my two kids, along with the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. My eleven year old Emily gets tears in her eyes like Glenn Beck when I read the Bill of Rights with her. I trust the government take care of my garbage every week, but not with educating my children....
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2010, 11:04:07 PM »
My reading has been less structured, Melville I read "Billy Budd" but never Moby Dick,  Thoreau I read parts of Walden and On Civil Disobedience, Bits and pieces of Paine and Franklin , I read one story by Hawthorne, didn't care for it so never read anything else he wrote, and I never got past the first page of Whitmans "Leaves of Grass".
However I read Homer and Virgil for fun, They were kind of like westerns with Gods and swords instead of indians and guns,
On My bookcase now, between The Federalist Papers" and the Machinery's Handbook are, Jack London Herman Hesse and Kurt Saxon  ;D
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Re: Catcher In The Rye Author, Salinger Died A Recluse In NH
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2010, 05:35:44 AM »
Quote from: twyacht on January 28, 2010, 03:38:27 PM
Seemed he chose to live a life of isolation in NH.  
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 “any goddam stupid conversation with anybody.”
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He wasn't to isolated, since he had a live in 18year old girl friend for a while.   ;)
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