"Hapworth" is a break-up with the reading and publishing industries. It's surely purposefully indulgent and willingly offputting. The idea came up a few years ago on this list that Salinger might be republishing the story as a means of fulfilling a divorce settlement involving contracts and royalties, but also as a way of reminding the world how little regard he has for his literary fame. -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu