Daily Archives: 2008-08-20

Homage to Hank

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Anne Trubek on Why We Shouldn’t Still Be Learning Catcher in the Rye

Its main appeal to students, he argued, is simply that the young like to read about the young, prefer short books, and ones without too many references to other books. Salinger, he says, “flatters [their] very ignorance and moral shallowness” … Continue reading

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