Subject: William Maxwell/JDS in New Yorker
From: William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 19:39:04 EST
The bend around millennium issue of the New Yorker has a piece on Bill
Maxwell--near the end. on page 76, "we" find this paragraph:
"As for how other writers regarded his opinion, when J.D. Salinger
finished 'Catcher in the Rye,' he drove to the Maxwell's house in the
country and in the course of an afternoon and evening read it to them on
their porch."
Am I being picky or shall I fire off a letter to the editors there for
allowing the above faux pas. It is ironic that the essay was a tribute to
Maxwell's editing and they can't even get the title right for Salinger's
lone novel...or is the absence of "The" just a mark of the book's
familiarity?
will
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