Search Results by tag: J. D. Salinger

Gone Hollywood: Dr. Seuss, E.L. James, and publishing’s blockbuster mentality

Dorie Clark, writing on the website of the Harvard Business Review, believes she has discovered the "hottest trend" in publishing today: books by established writers that were written decades ago. As evidence, Clark cites one ... Read More »

July 29, 2015 | Filed under: Opinion

Book links roundup: Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years, the greatest books of all time, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years of book and music blogging at Brooklyn's Word Bookstore The Atlantic lists greatest books of all time as voted by 125 famous authors J.D. Salinger's Franny, Graham Greene's Maurice Bendrix, and ... Read More »

February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: J.D. Salinger’s letters, bpNichol, poetry bombing, and more

By Sue Carter

Uncovered J.D. Salinger letters make references to Sesame Street, Kafka, and unpublished manuscripts Carmine Starnino wonders whether bpNichol is ... Read More »

July 6, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz roundup: zombie Salinger still publicity-shy, Nabokov was right about butterflies, TED gets into e-books, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

A year after his death, J.D. Salinger is still shunning the spotlight Vladimir Nabokov's theory about a particular species of butterfly gets confirmed by scientists TED, the ongoing lecture series (conference? symposium? smartypantsium?) is starting ... Read More »

January 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, April 6

By Scott MacDonald

The day's news, in convenient bullet form: Random House has its iPad cake and eats it, too Salon's Laura Miller ... Read More »

April 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Amazon fails, flanimals escape, and more

By Laura Godfrey

Here are some literary links for your perusal: Amazon continues to fail: After removing all Macmillan titles from its site, the company's own stock fell nearly 6% yesterday Salty Ink is throwing caution to the ... Read More »

February 2, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Readers salivate over Salinger’s unpublished manuscripts

By Steven W. Beattie

J.D. Salinger has been dead a scant five days, but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974 interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

J.D. Salinger dies at 91

By Laura Godfrey

J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey, has died at age 91 in his New Hampshire home. According to The New York Times, the author died of natural causes: ... Read More »

January 28, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Time to retire Catcher in the Rye?

By Scott MacDonald

There's an internet debate a'brewin' over the merits of that perennial high school syllabus placeholder The Catcher in the Rye. Over at Good Magazine, Anne Trubek makes an impassioned plea to replace it with something ... Read More »

August 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book culture

Haruki Murakami on translation