Re: It's been a while!
Andrew Charles Kennis (holden@escape.com)
Sun, 10 May 1998 03:06:09 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 7 May 1998 Jaramillojp@kktv.com wrote:
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>
> I know Catcher was published in 51 about five years
> around the same time Kerouac and Huncke and Ginsberg would be meeting in
> Nuevo York. I know Salinger might be living in a better apartment but he
> was around Columbia for a while wasn't he?
>
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First and foremost, I do not think that Salinger in any way influenced
the beats, as well as vice-versa. Although I think there are similarities
between the literary genre you mention and Salinger's thematic devices,
it would still be kinda a stretch to consider both to be analogous.
Secondly, I do not think that Salinger lived in the Upper West Side
(though, he did make references to the Glass family living there), and
even if he did, the beats were always hanging out on my street and
in my neighborhood (MacDougal Street / West Village), far from the
snobby vestiges of Columbia.
I could be wrong about all of this though, as they are just my hunches.
Please, any and all Salinger PhD'ians on this list, correct me if I'm
wrong or whatever.
--AK
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