[Bananafish] New Member Alert

[Daniel Moore]

Sounds good. I feel like it might just be that slick magazine
sentimentality translates better to reading something on a computer,
where my mind has a tendency to wander, so I'll give Eddie a shot on
paper and see how it works out. The attraction/repulsion thing is
interesting; it seemed a little flat when I first read it, so an
insight like that'll do wonders.

As for my fascination with Young Girl in 1941, I think I like it
because it reminds me of one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "flapper"
stories--the formiulaic ones he hated writing--as written by J.D.
Salinger, which is just the kind of weird combination I'm required by
law to enjoy.

Regards,
Dan

On 2/2/07, Kenneth <kenny2 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Aw, Dan Moore, "Go See Eddie" isn't bad for a second publication. I kind of
> like it.
> There's an edginess to it typical of Salinger's earliest writings. As a kid,
> Salinger was both repelled and enormously attracted to women like Helen. (In
> fact, I think he married one.) He wrote a (very bad) poem about such women
> in which his sexual fascination with them leaps off the page.
> On the other hand, could you explain to me your attraction to "A Young Girl
> in !941"?
> I admit this was the last Salinger story that I read. Just beforehand, I had
> suffered through "The Children's Echelon," a terrible piece. When I realized
> that "A Young Girl" was basically a re-write of that story, I groaned.
> Let's make a deal, though. I'll give "A Young Girl" a fresh chance if you do
> the same for "Go See Eddie."
>
> Kenneth
>
> P.S. Good call on Nine Stories, IMHO.
>
>
> >Hide the children, etc. My name is Dan Moore, and it made me very happy to
> > remember that this list existed, today, while I was making my weekly check
> > of the mostly-dormant JD Salinger livejournal community.
> >
> > I'm a would-be writer and happens-to-be Journalism student at the
> > University
> > of Missouri who spends an inordinate amount of time printing out old short
> > stories from Saturday Evening Post microfilm and attempting to create a
> > lookalike cover for my very own bootleg copy of the uncollected Salinger
> > stories I can't live without (i.e. most of them except Go See Eddie.) I've
> > read a few months of archives and I'm excited to join in the
> > bananafishery.
> > In the interest of full disclosure, my favorite Nine Stories are Down at
> > the
> > Dinghy and Esme, and my least favorites are Pretty Mouth and Teddy. And
> > I'm
> > a big fan of "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All", although I'm not
> > sure why. That about covers it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan