These are books that by all rights shouldn’t exist — unauthorized editions of J.D. Salinger’s suppressed stories, each one a testament to someone’s decision that literary conservation ...

However, a scan of a paperback book entitled Three Stories has appeared on a file sharing website and verified by a J.D Salinger scholar, Kenneth Slawenski, as the author’s work. Having read the ...

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With apparent deliberation, J. D. Salinger has trimmed his prose until it cannot stand by itself, has excisedaction and event so rigorously that the stories only through the significance and ...

Longtime Salinger publisher Little, Brown and Company had no comment Friday. J.D. Salinger published just four books in his lifetime: “Nine Stories,” ’‘The Catcher in the Rye,” ’‘Franny and Zooey” and ...

The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield has certainly cemented that image into most of our heads, with his cynical self-pitying personality. Whether it is on Goodreads reviews, or on BookTok, ...