“Salinger”: Does The New Yorker Like It?
Well, the magazine’s Adam Gopnik does, sort of. He writes that apart from information about Salinger’s first marriage that “there are no real revelations here.” But: ‘From now on, if you want to understand why the young J. D. Salinger fled New York publishing, fanatic readers, eager biographers, disingenuous interpreters, character assassination in the guise of “scholarship,†and the literary world generally, you need only open this book.’
