Subject: Tomorrow's NYTimes Book Review, p.23
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 01:01:18 GMT
"Holden Reconsidered and All" by Judith Shulevitz is an interesting
review...she says that "Identifying with Holden has become an
American rite of passage. Initiation into literature by way of J.D.
Salinger's novel is the subject of Kip Kotzen and Thomas Beller's
forthcoming anthology of essays called "With Love and Squalor: 14
Writers Respond to the work of J.D. Salinger,"though a better title
would have been 'On First Encountering Holden.' For most of the
contributors, the memory is bittersweet, poignant, inseparable from
that of adolescence itself. Only a few evince any distance."
I read this a "stretch break" as I write the afterward to Letters to
Salinger. Although there are plenty of adolescent textures in the
letters we will publish, there is a variety of approaches that range
from scholarly and professional to the truth of youth. We hope to
present a wide spectrum of reading responses that offer our readers
more paths and insights into Salinger's fiction. I will say as much
in a letter to the editor, but I'd like to hear other responses to
"Holden Reconsidered and All."
will
-- Will Hochman Assistant Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
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