January 28, 2010

J.D. Salinger dies

J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose “The Catcher in the Rye” shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.

Fuck me.

posted by Deron Bauman in books, history, humans, literature, love | * | 11 comments 

comments

  1. Andrew Simone on January 28th, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    beat you to it.

  2. Andrew Simone on January 28th, 2010 at 12:28 pm

    I feel really upset about this.

  3. Deron Bauman on January 28th, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    I understand.

  4. Andrew Simone on January 28th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    bananafish

  5. Josh Weichhand on January 28th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    I’ve wondered about this day for so long. Now that it’s here, I’m not sure how to respond.

    I’ll take comfort in the hope that he’s been sitting on a whole mess of unreleased novels.

  6. Michael Smith on January 28th, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    Shit.

  7. Michael Smith on January 28th, 2010 at 1:02 pm

    Josh, I felt bad when the same thought crossed my mind.

  8. Andrew Simone on January 28th, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    Since we are talking about it.

  9. Andrew Simone on January 28th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    And

  10. Kelsey Parker on January 28th, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    A few suitcases of manuscripts.

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