JD Salinger - Nine Stories (the tribute poll)

i'm going "the laughing man"

"Down at the Dinghy"- "kite/kike" still moves me to this day. Also "For Esme" etc.

Esme, I think.

I voted for Esme, too.

"Down at the Dinghy" i don't remember well.

"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes"
"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"

distressed to find i don't remember these at all from their titles.

the rest are all amazing.

Bananafish, I think. So sad. So awfully sad.

probably something like

"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" ="The Laughing Man" = "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor" > "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" > "Teddy"

err bananafish before teddy

aarrgggh can't choose just one.
I'd be inclined towards Bananafish cos that one, for me, has had the biggest impact in terms of me thinking about and reading it waaaay more times than the others. but I don't know if it's my favourite... maybe teddy. maybe esme.

Bananafish is possibly my favourite short story, or at least on a par with Paley's ‘The Loudest Voice’. So that.

"De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period"

distressed to find i don't remember these at all from their titles.

i think reading nine stories a second time i had the same experience, having been enraptured by the others and just read straight through those. de daumier smith comes back to me as much as anything though, up there with the paris-chinese border in laughing man and teddy puzzling on triumvirate.

Teddy is the weakest, too didactic. The rest have aged pretty well.

Esme.

"Teddy is the weakest, too didactic."
What's the lesson here? Proper swimming pool maintenance?

uncle wiggily

poor uncle wiggily btw

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awww

I can see Wes Anderson doing a film version of "The Laughing Man" -- not the main story so much, but the tale spun within.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/the-film-jd-salinger-nearly-made

haven't read this yet, but there was nearly an "esmé" film that salinger signed off on!

what ever happened to those unpublished glass stories that supposedly existed?

was wondering this ^_^ too

didnt that solero doc talk abt other like religious tracts or whatev jd spent the last 40 yrs writing would start coming out or

on wiki: "In an oral biography titled Salinger, authors David Shields and Shane Salerno assert that the author had left specific instructions authorizing a timetable, to start between 2015 and 2020, for the release of several unpublished works. According to the authors and their sources, these include five new Glass-family stories; a novel based on Salinger's relationship with his first wife, Sylvia; a novella in the form of a WWII counterintelligence officer’s diary; a "manual" of stories about Vedanta; and other new or retooled stories that illuminate the life of Holden Caulfield."

no idea