Re: Salinger Articles

Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:56:23 -0400 

On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 09:24:33PM +0000, cinnimon@vvm.com wrote:

> While I know that there are few out there, I am wondering if anyone 
> has a list or even one record of where I can find a Salinger article.  
> I will be going to Duke for three weeks soon, and I was planning on 
> doing some research while there - take advantage of their facilities.  
> I went last year; however, going into it blindly was fairly bad. 
> Please, though, if you have any records or even ideas as to finding 
> articles on, about or even slightly pertaining to Salinger, it would 
> be a tremendous help.  Thanks :)

I hate to sound retrograde, but if it's scholarship you're looking to
do, try the best place in the world: the library.  Visit the reference
desk and ask them to point you to either their online indices (usually
only available to those who pay for them, e.g., the library itself) or
the older bound volumes.  

You can also grab from the stacks a handful of books on Salinger, and
check the bibliographies.  And there's Jack Sublette's authoritative
bibliography, J.D. Salinger : An Annotated Bibliography, 1938-1981
(Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol 436).  Out of print it
is, but Duke has a copy.  And about 25 other works about Salinger in its
collection -- check their catalog at http://library.duke.edu/

Like many library catalogs, it doesn't claim to have the older material
in the online database (Duke seems to have started automating in 1979,
or has at least done it retrospectively to that point), but there's
quite a bit available.  And most of these books that are not
bibliographies themselves CONTAIN pointers to articles and other books.  
(Sort of like the WWW on paper.  8-)

Or to get a head start before hitting Duke, perhaps you can visit the 
UT at Austin library, which has a fine collection and would be a good 
foothold on the beach of scholarship!

They even have a new subject heading 8-$:

	SALINGER JD JEROME DAVID -- RELATIONS WITH WOMEN

... courtesy of Ms. Maynard.

--tim