As you know, in the late 1990s Salinger was set to publish Hapworth 16, 1924. Like many I was excited and hopeful that a positive publishing experience may lead to new publishing from Salinger.

After the date was pushed back I called my local book store. The girl I spoke with was confused why the date was continually changed. She said she would try to find out what was going on and call me back.

She then left a message with the publisher, Orchises Press. Once she got a call back with an answer, she called me and matter-of-factly said that she spoke with the author and gave me the new date.

When I questioned her regarding the details of the conversation it was obvious she was unaware Salinger was a recluse. She just stuck to her story that he called her back and said he was the one who wrote the story.

Good film, guys – thanks again. I enjoyed watching it.

Best wishes.

What I learned from Part I: English teachers are born, not made. Your’s reminded me of my own.

Thanks for this, guys.

this wasn’t even planned out and the whole doc is about you guys!

you could have at least filmed his house, gotten a long lens and filmed from a tree or something. it seems like you didn’t even try… maybe you couldn’t find the house so you just made this up?

The hardest thing for me to imagine is Salinger turning on the television set and trying to make sense of, say, MTV. If he hated movies back then, and if indeed he had a sense that the world was corrupt in some way, what must he think of the country today?

Come to think of it, even now at my age, moving into New England and becoming a recluse doesn’t sound so bad.

That said, I wish he’d give us one substantial interview. Just one long talk about the way his celebrity and his books impacted his life, and his view of the world. The occasional psychopath aside, people who love Catcher (or Franny & Zooey for that matter), tend to be at their most tender, when loving it, and I hope that’s not lost on him.

I have noticed that a lot of people forced to read that book hated it, and certain type-A personalities who read it on their own hate it, but almost everyone else who reads it tends to like it a lot.

As for Catcher, I’ve read it 5 times now – I will probably read it a few more, spaced out a little more now, perhaps once a decade. It changes as you age.

I wonder if he had any idea the extent to which that book would affect people. I wish he’d tell us.

But I guess in the end I got a whole hell of a lot more out of that $5.95 paperback than I paid for it, so I don’t have much to complain about.