J.D. Salinger was arguably the world’s most famous recluse. But a handful of letters now available for public view give readers a glimpse of a life that was anything but house-bound.

- The Morgan Library has opened a new exhibit, "Letters by J.D. Salinger." The WSJ has a preview. The show will run through early May.- This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Gardner Heist. The Boston Globe has a piece on the (...

J.D. Salinger's letters and other coming attractions (cartoon)

With The Morgan Library's upcoming exhibition of ten brief letters and one postcard from J.D. Salinger to his “Buddyroo” E. Michael Mitchell, the artist who designed the original cover to The Catcher in the Rye, five decades of...

In September 2008, Malcolm Dorson's boss at Deutsche Bank laid him off. Now he's back on Wall Street, working in the private bank of a multi-national financial services firm. He's also a (self) published author. "Everyone has a boo...

In September 2008, Malcolm Dorson's boss at Deutsche Bank laid him off. Now he's back on Wall Street, working in the private bank of a multi-national financial services firm. He's also a (self) published author. "Everyone has a boo...

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

NPR is streaming the new Frightened Rabbit album, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. In the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, C.C. Smith recounts a decade of correspondence with J.D. Salinger. At NPR, Maud Newton reviews Brian Dillon's new book The...

Jesse Malin's been playing music onstage for just under 30 years. He’s 42...

Medill student Lauren E. Bohn turns in a piece a week on interesting Chicagoans for her broadcast journalism course, and she recently made video about artist and Reader blogger Dmitry Samarov (a tie winner for Reader's choice as bes...

A few weeks back Phoebe Hoban compiled a list of the J.D. Salinger archives held at various libraries across the country, including the Morgan Library’s collection of letters from the author to his friend, artist E. Michael Mit...

Those who can't get enough of Mr. Salinger will have a chance to see the letters to his longtime friend in all their glory at a pair of coming exhibitions.

Those who can't get enough of J.D. Salinger, in his own words, will be heartened to hear that they will have a chance to see letters he wrote to a friend at a pair of coming exhibitions.

Lotte Jacobi/Wikipedia JD Salinger ASF Tribute At Ransom CenterFriday, February 26thHarry Ransom Center (21st & Guadaloupe)6:30pm doors open, get there early to avoid lines![info]Since his death on January 27th, JD Salinger's physic...

"I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. Certain people, certain events have all left scars on my hands. " - JD SalingerAs I look back at my life, I feel a kinship to Salinger’s Seymour Glass. A grown up who would hav...

What's missing is the effortless character charisma Salinger provided. It does no damage to the 1951 bestseller. The Catcher in the Rye continues to stand on its own, unassailed.

In Austin, the Harry Ransom Center and American Short Fiction are hosting a tribute event for J.D. Salinger that will include readings by Elizabeth Crane, Nick Flynn, Amelia Gray, Elizabeth McCracken, ZZ Packer, and John Pipkin.

In August of 1978, [Nicola Nikolov] wrote, heart in hand, two-page long, well-written, typed letters to a small number of American novelists, with full, dire...

I don't know what 'desultory' means, I just threw it up there because it sounds erudictable. I'm one of those phonies that Pierre Salinger wrote about. Like sometimes I'll pretend I'm a professional assassin when I'm really not. Li...

Now 83, writer Alice Sheba went on a 1946 double-date with the future literary lion. The foursome dined, danced at downdtown stronghold the Village Vanguard - and she gave Jerry a goodnight peck. [NYT Image by Julie Glassberg] ...