Comments on: Watch: Captivating Trailer For Documentary On Famed Literary Recluse J.D. ‘Salinger’

By: Art

Art — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:42:36 +0000

Leave him the fuck alone. This reeks of TMZ-era media coverage.

By: Vas

Vas — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:42:36 +0000

for Salinger
https://vimeo.com/26060234

By: rabi

rabi — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:42:36 +0000

Maybe, just maybe, he didn't want to be famous. Or is that just too un-American to understand?

By: concerned citizen kane

concerned citizen kane — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:42:36 +0000

I know they're trying to rachet up the excitement over what could be a very dry, academic subject…but the marketing on this thing is just absurd. From the trailer alone, you'd think he was the North Pond Hermit. They're making a man's privacy into something vaguely perverse.

By: ROD

ROD — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:42:36 +0000

The thing is: Salinger published quite a bit of material beyond Catcher, but almost no one has read it. The only reason anyone is interested in whatever he might've written later in life that went unpublished is the mystery surrounding it. If he'd published it in the course of his life as he had published Raise High the Roof Beam, etc. no one would have cared. But it does make for fun speculation