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Apr 06, 2010, 07:46AM

The Not-Quite-Lost Writings of Salinger

Hapworth 16, 1924: the almost-published masterpiece.

The first letter I got from J.D. Salinger was very short. It was 1988, and I had written to him with a proposal: I wanted my tiny publishing house, Orchises Press, to publish his novella Hapworth 16, 1924. And Salinger himself had improbably replied, saying that he would consider it.

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