J. D. Salinger

...went on to edit the New York Times Book Review, cites a quartet of dominant influences in the magazine's late-century heyday of fiction: J.D. Salinger, Donald Barthelme, Ann Beattie and Carver. Others came to see Carver as the American...

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...and now he doesn't? "I didn't say that." Rumours of a "new" Gil Scott-Heron album, like a fresh blockbuster from the similarly elusive JD Salinger, have circulated for as long as anyone can remember. But while the singer was in prison, he...

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...visual brilliance came into sharp focus with The Royal Tenenbaums, an elaborately wrapped present to a generation that wanted its own J.D. Salinger, one without the hermit-like lifestyle and creepy Joyce Maynard baggage. (See the Top 10...

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...similar to "Who Will," as they all follow the same idea of acoustic storytelling. One track brings back legends of the literary world, J.D. Salinger's Franny Glass. But Franny Glass isn't the only fictional character to come back to life.

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...Walt Disney and Jim Davis - to comics Jackie Gleason, W.C. Fields and fellow Hoosier Red Skelton, to the rare - Helen Keller, author J.D. Salinger and baseball's Sandy Koufax. There are also ten U.S. presidents in his collection, but not...

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...specialty. Yet the spiritual, the literary, and the romantic all collide on "For Franny Glass", an at-face ode to the classic J.D. Salinger story Franny & Zooey, which details the young Franny as one who is fed up with her school's...

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...a fan of comic book heroes suggested he go on a quest to prove his love. Arquette challenged him to track down an autograph from author JD Salinger, a rare statue and a Tibetan wedding dress. Cage fulfilled his quest but it took him another...

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...several recent high-profile copyright fights, including the fight over publication of a book that was promoted as a sequel to J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." A judge blocked the book's publication in the United States because it too...

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...two members of the same species, even if the artist's side of the exchange is "go away and leave me alone". Paradoxically, it was JD Salinger, a novelist who has refused any rapport with his readership outside the pages of the books,...

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A U.S. appeals court judge called an unauthorized spin-off of J.D. Salinger's classic novel "The Catcher in the Rye" a "rather dismal piece of work" on Thursday and questioned whether the book harmed the famed novelist. Lawyers for Swedish...

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