Comments on: Short Stories by J. D. Salinger

By: Frank James Davis

Frank James Davis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:13:06 +0000

Adrian, I certainly agree. (That’ll be four bucks, please.)

By: Adrian James

Adrian James — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:21:24 +0000

Great, but here’s the thing. We all know that the Saturday Evening Post was the cat’s meow back like in the 1940s (or ’20s, or ’30s, or ’50s). Look at “literary journals” and underground story magazines of today, and you’ll see that they don’t print those kind of stories. They print awful stuff, really dumb stuff. In fact nobody is printing the great stuff you used to run. If you want to bring that back, go all the way with it will ya? Get some great stuff like before. No one else is going with it. What have you got to lose? Go all the way with it, pay pro rates and buy up some excellent stories, pay a dollar a word or whatever and start attracting true talent. That’s the way to relevance. Why not give it a try?

By: JGP

JGP — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:10:29 +0000

Like many a master, he was at times brilliant and at times, yes, over-hyped.

By: Frank James Davis

Frank James Davis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:03:34 +0000

I think Salinger was an American master–of disguise. A hero of hermitage.

By: Peter Farthing

Peter Farthing — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:19:00 +0000

Overhyped, my friend Salinger is an American master and deserves all hype

By: Frank James Davis

Frank James Davis — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:45:14 +0000

Great story.
Two things: Jeff Nilsson got a byline for a couple of dozen words?
I still think J.D. Salinger is overhyped.