New letters surface from Salinger to a war buddy. Most interestingly, a confirmation that Salinger had a room full of unpublished manuscripts.
Then there’s this, about the book that almost was.
(h/t TSI)
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I’d like to read some of those now-mythical unpublished work(s), if ever they see publication. I expect someone’ll find a clause in his final papers demanding that they never be published, or if so, after translation to Greek.
Writers’ “no posthumous publication” orders, even legal ones, are never followed. No one believes them, and/so they (+ lawyers) find a way around them.
Except once. Foucault’s executor reportedly ran straight from the hospital to destroy everything unfinished or abandoned, before the vultures got scent. Good man.
Salinger didn’t have a good man around, and no matter what his express wishes were, the mere existence of stuff on paper justifies everyone’s thinking that he didn’t really mean to keep it to himself (because everyone isn’t like Salinger), so the crap-flood’s coming.
Bah.
I wonder if they found any cupcakes in the room!
I don’t care about most of the unpublished stuff. But if he has a 1989 manuscript of Holden going all Michael-Douglas-in-Falling-Down — called something like, Catcher Puts A Foot Up Your Asses — count me in for a hardcover copy.
Can’t wait for the collaborative album with Tupak.
Catcher Up Yours
And cupcakes!
Was he Italian? Then it could be Catcher Up A Yours.
But I think I’ll go with Catcher Up The Yours.
And so we’re clear here, not your yours, but theirs.
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There’s apparently a whole groundswell of buzz on Salinger news at the moment.
I am not surprised that Salinger had a lot of unfinished manuscripts. He wrote.
I write for fun, and most everything is unfinished because I ran out of ideas for that piece, and then started something else that caught my fancy.
BTW – a best friend will help you bury a body; a great best friend will collect all your papers and shred then burn them, and take every hard drive/jump drive/CD/disc and hit them repeatedly with an ax before burning them in a non EPA-approved manner.
From your “This” link: breathtakingly precocious? wtf?