What the hell happened to our friend JD Salinger ?

Skip everything about Salinger please...

Let's be clear I did not enjoy Capote that much. To someone who has seen " in cold blood" the movie is not bringing any added value in my humble opinion. This being said nobody could have played Truman better than our friend Philip Seymour besides perhaps that guy Chrissy if only he was talented, educated and distinguished...but that's not the case.

I wonder if our friend Salinger met Capote...anyway. What’s wrong with Salinger in the first place ? (no not Pierre Salinger…who cares about Pierre Salinger ?). You did not think that I was going to let you go that easily after you made me read a book ? did you now ? J.D. Salinger has not published since 1965 and has apparently chosen to shun all publicity and inquiry concerning his private life.

He reminds me of FHC who is also, let’s be honest, pathologically self-centered, claims to lead the life of a recluse and yet never misses an opportunity to have diner in some trendy spot and keeps an online blog of his every movements. FHC is so vain: he even compares himself to J.D. Salinger in the early evening.

I found two interesting facts in my research. First his daughter, Margaret, wrote an awful book about him telling everybody what a monster he was and that led me to think, that if my mother was  just a little bit famous, I could make a fortune. Secondly, his son, Matthew, a second class actor happens to have played in "The revenge of the Nerds". Daddy must have been proud...Once I was in Key Biscayne in my unemployed years and the grandson of Hemingway died in cell at 69 dressed as a woman. I will keep my spicy Phil Alito's story for another time....

Now we might be interested to read Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander , there is a link to Amazon (Christmas is approaching and thousands of ideas for LL will appear in the blog between now and december 25th).

Henry Anatole Grunwald once commented "whatever his motives, Salinger's elusiveness adds a special element to his fiction. He plays with it, and on it."

Some more info on Salinger’s hermit life from Slate, Salinger.org's website (whatever that is), a brief bio of JD Salinger and finally NYT's books page on JD Salinger .

All of that reminds me that I lost my Indochine birthday album which included the song "Des floeurs pour Salinger" (flowers for Salinger). Who took it ? perhaps Frenchbenj has a copy...it's his generation.

In the news, some more Alito's stuff. Are vividblurry and fagat competing over the one that is saying the least ? or are they the victim of the disease that already claimed the mayor's blog (via dcist) ?

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[LL]

I first met Pierre Salinger at the 1960 Democratic Convention.