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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Author J.D. Salinger, who died in January, is once again in the news, in all his appalling glory. The Morgan Library in Manhattan has put on display Salinger's correspondence with a friend -- Michael Mitchell, the artist who drew the original illustration on Salinger's 1951 novel, "Catcher in the Rye." ...
J. D. Salinger's slide into that last good night sent my mind to assassins.And suddenly, it's Dec. 8, 1980, night on a New York city sidewalk where a chunky Mark Chapman draws his Hawaiian-bought Charter Arms .38 and from spitting distance blasts four out of five hollow point bullets into ex-Beatle John Lennon's back. As Lennon bleeds out on the sidewalk and Yoko Ono screams and sirens wail closer, the assassin reaches into his pocket, pulls out and reads Salinger's most famous book, Catcher In The Rye.FADE IN: Washington D.C. March 30, 1981, a cool spring day. Boyishly good looking but a ...
Somewhere in England, I so want to believe, lives a jazz-loving, relentlessly honest, incisively bright, deeply sentimental 78-year-old woman named Esmé who long ago befriended an American GI in a tea shop on the eve of the D-Day invasion. They only talked for half an hour -- this self-confident and vulnerable 13-year-old girl, a war orphan, and this Army sergeant, who, in civilian life, had published a few fledgling short stories -- chaperoned by her governess and her young brother, Charles. They never met again, although they exchanged letters, but somehow this chance encounter mattered ...
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