Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Littwin: Today’s teens can still feel angst of Salinger’s "Catcher"
There’s a safe, apparently, where Salinger may or may not have stores of unpublished manuscripts, a safe that may contain works of genius or works of so much gibberish. If you’re a Salinger fan, as I am, you’re afraid to find out which.
I re-read “Catcher” instead. I go back to the riff in which Holden explains why he’s still a virgin — because he feels sorry for the girl and, besides, he’s afraid in the end he’ll get blamed for . . . something. And I re-take Holden’s trip through the city — a trip Ulysses might have taken if he had just been kicked out of yet another prep school that was supposed to take him to Harvard and not to a bar at 4 a.m. for a long chat with a prostitute. I’ve read the stories often enough that they feel like my stories.
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