It was an accident. I had no intention of reading The Catcher in the Rye again, let alone last summer. It came about because my wife and our adult children got this quaint notion about decluttering the bookshelves at our cottage. The question became: “Prize it or pitch it?”
One of the many decisions I faced was over a 1999 paperback of Salinger: A Biography…
Jack Chambers
Jack Chambers is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and the author of A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington.