J.D. Salinger is dead. Age 91, he died, according to reports, of natural causes, at home, away from the media.
I confess—I never read him. Catcher In The Rye is one of those touchstone books everyone had read, but not I. For whatever reason, it never crossed my path. I remember those bright red covers in high school, sort of wondered about it, but…
We can’t read everything, and some books, if you don’t get to them at a certain period in your life, you might as well not bother. I doubt Holden Caulfield’s adventures would mean to me now what they would have back then. …