J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger Archives

J.D. (Jerome David) Salinger

Catcher Gone Awry

From an August 2020 parole hearing for Mark David Chapman, who was sentenced to twenty years to life in prison in 1981 for killing John Lennon. Chapman was denied parole.…

Ex libris

by Harper’s Staff,

The hazardous art of mistranslation

by Andrew Robert MacAndrew,

J.D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit

by Mary McCarthy,

A suggestion that the literary hero of theYounger Set — the Great Phony-slayer — may, justpossibly, be a bit of a phony himself. WHO is to inherit the mantle of Papa Hemingway?…