“I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
Well, I guess at least now he'll finally get left alone.
Thanks for the books, man. You sure were right about girls.
"That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
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I recently re-read Catcher in the Rye when I bought it for my 14-year-old, and it blew my mind. I had remembered it as a hilarious book about a smart-mouth kid who sees through phonies. But as an adult, I realized it's the same set-up as Ordinary People: a teenage kid can't get over the death of his brother, and everyone in his upper-class Waspy world wants to act as if nothing happened. Heart-breakingly sad.
Am I a bad, horrible person for wishing we'll see some posthumously published stories?
No, I don't think so.
But it'll be wonderful to have the focus on the work again, instead of the "mystery of the reclusive life."
I hope so. Unfortunately, the vile tell-all books by his ex-girlfriends will probably get a sales bump for a while.
J.D. (all writers are on a first name basis) once told an interviewer he wrote every day but just for himself and at that time had about 15 manuscripts locked in a safe.
More playing with people or more stories. We may know soon.
I thought all that talk of Salinger writing every day was just what he says in WP Kinsella's, .
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