Jerome David Salinger was an American writer who is known for his widely-read novel “The Catcher in the Rye.” Following his early success, Salinger led a very private life for more than a half-century ...

CORNISH, N.H. - J.D. Salinger supposedly spent the latter half of his life writing for his own pleasure, composing each day in a pine house in the hills that overlooked towering maple trees, plowed ...

Each morning, as dawn seeps through my office windows, I settle into my meditation spot — a broken but still serviceable knockoff Eames chair. There, I sit with my eyes closed, repeating a mantra that ...

The Westport Public Library today presented a timely conversation with Kenneth Slawenski, author of the just published “J.D. Salinger: A Life.” Westporter Sybil Steinberg, a former editor at Publisher ...

Helen Kingstone has received funding from Wellcome: it funded the research behind the guide for 'Talking about Generations'. In 1991, Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation X supposedly made him the ...

“Welcome to Johnny’s world,” said a greeter with a giggle of disbelief. His incredulity was understandable. He was manning an art gallery in Chelsea where the work of Johnny Depp is currently on ...

In 2018, I wrote a book about the Jewish-American writers — Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and the others who powered the golden age of Jewish writers in post-war America. I thought of ...

Writers are no longer central to American culture in the way that Dos Passos, Hemingway, and Faulkner were treated. The late Joan Didion did come under the spotlight, but Norman Mailer before his ...

The first of many things I didn’t know about tenor saxophonist Stan Getz is that I was going to be writing about him today. In February 1954 when he was arrested for holding up a Seattle drugstore, I ...

For me, the most enduring image of 20th Century literature comes from J. D. Salinger's novel, "A Catcher in the Rye." The main character, Holden Caulfield, is asked by sister Phoebe if he cares for ...