Manhattan Adult Entertainment: So long, J.D., icon for generations

They’re a collection of short stories, “Nine Stories,” and two compilations: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.” They are all works of art.
I remember the punch I felt in my gut after reading “Just Before the War with the Eskimos” in “Nine Stories” (1953). The ending was so inconclusive that I read it about a dozen times. It was genius.
I later learned that critics have long loved “Nine Stories.” John Updike said loved Salinger’s endings, the “open-ended Zen quality they have, the way they don’t snap shut.”
But Salinger wrote his life creed with “Catcher in the Rye” (1951).
Holden hates that his brother D.B. “prostitutes himself” as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Salinger ordered his agent to burn any fan mail. He told the editors of Saturday Review that he was “good and sick” of seeing his face on the “Catcher” book jacket and demanded that it be removed.

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