J.D. Salinger 1919-2010
January 28, 2010
Or Jerome David, as he was known to his folks. Author of the penultimate coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye (and my personal favorite half-novel Franny and Zoey). RIP.
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Or Jerome David, as he was known to his folks. Author of the penultimate coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye (and my personal favorite half-novel Franny and Zoey). RIP.
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Safire receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the last Bush…the Sunday magazine of the NYT will feel empty without the man who kept us grammatically honest. RIP.
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Genius is not a generous thing In return it charges more interest than any amount of royalties can cover And it resents fame With bitter vengeance Pills and powdres only placate it awhile Then it puts you in a place where the planet’s poles reverse Where the currents of electricity shift Your Body becomes…
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“My writing is concerned with the soul, with the unknown forces of the psyche. A British writer said I write under the skin, which I liked. In a spiritual sense, the real life of man is going on inside. It’s not what he says or does, it’s something else. The only way, I think, one…
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Winter—the warm weekend aside, such a slog, exacerbated by the downward spiral in our economy, unemployment numbers that have everyone on edge, and the possibility that the gay mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, might be down for the count because of an ill-considered sexual indiscretion. Nail in the Coffin Dept: The Oscar Wilde Bookshop, the…
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Who Steals My Good Name For the person who obtained my debit card number and spent $11,000 in five days My pale stepdaughter, just off the school bus, Scowled, “Well, that’s the last time I say my name’s Snodgrass!” Just so, may that anonymous Mexican male who prodigally claims My clan lines, identity and…
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Delaney Bramlett, Freddie Hubbard, Bernie Hamilton, Daniel Nagrin, Ann Savage, and Edward Purdom—this list of high-and-low cultured show folk said their last goodbyes at year’s end. Now Pat Hingle’s gone, a character actor whose work spanned TV, film and the Broadway stage. So many memorable performances (he was unforgettable as the hood who burned a…
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Goes Old guy goes downstairs reeling and shying at newel and banister while how his feet once blistered the treads is what he is recalling, for the young know how to balance. Christ help all who wobble, stagger, trip, step double, and are their own hindrance, oh help them. The day is fine out, bright…
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Chairman of Archie Comics, a company man, as was his father (a company co-founder) before him. A shout-out, if only for the boyhood pleasures derived from the exploits of Archie and Jughead, guys who gave nerds a good name. RIP
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This morning I awoke to the news that a mysterious stranger on a bike had detonated a device in Manhattan’s Times Square. No casualties, no damage except some shattered windows and, oh, train delays, an occurrence that doesn’t usually require an explosion, but that’s another trauma. Like something out of a movie the event served…
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