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Searching For J.D. Salinger In A New Biography

Searching For J.D. Salinger In A New Biography

The Colin McEnroe Show

September 3, 201349m 29s

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If you seek parallels between J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon they're easy to find. Both were literary geniuses. Both were publicity-shunning recluses. Both men were psychosexually arrested by God knows what primal wound.

Salinger seemed able to bond only with very young women and girls. Pynchon had a pattern -- somehow linked to inability to form normal alliances --  of hijacking the wives and partners of his friends.

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