Subject: RE: Greetings and question
From: Baader, Cecilia (cbaader@casecorp.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 18:18:03 EST
> On Monday, January 03, 2000 12:21 AM Robbie [shok@netcom.com] wrote:
>
> Hello. I'm new to the list and this is my first post. ;)
>
Welcome to the list, Robbie! Might I say that I am so happy to see so many
new faces around here? I hope that you find a bit of wisdom lurking
throughout the bananafishpond, as I have so often done.
>
> Is there any news on the publication of Hapworth? As far as I know,
> it's just been postponed and postponed and now it's just disappeared.
> It seems like nobody is even talking about it anymore.
>
> What happened?
>
It appears that the Old Man has Changed His Mind. However, if you're an
adventurous sort, you can find Hapworth at your local library. If you dig
up the June 19 1965 edition of _The New Yorker_, you will find Hapworth on
pages 32-113. (Nearly the whole magazine.) Though many feel that progress
is sometimes laborious, I think it's worth the read. (Especially for one
wanting insight into the question that gets asked every two minutes around
here... why S. committed suicide.)
Those of you who have read Hapworth and still aren't convinced might want to
make that selfsame trip down to the library... I've recently been poring
over Eberhard Alsen's _Salinger's Glass Stories as a Composite Novel_. It's
the first criticism that I've seen that has not immediately dismissed
Hapworth out of hand. Alsen addresses my favorite perspective: the
individual story v. the stories as a composite whole. He calls Hapworth
Buddy's "loot" and does a fine job defending that argument.
Warren French's opinions notwithstanding.
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