[Bananafish] JD Events?

[James Rovira]

There's also Salinger's intense desire for privacy and for people to
leave his personal life alone -- backed up by lawyers.  Makes things
difficult.  But people can always write about the work...

Jim

On 1/15/07, BIJAN BAYNE <bijanc at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Is JDS under-studied? I imagine one cannot produce an HBO biopic of a living
> figure, or a film such as has been done about Capote (two), Peter Sellers,
> or C.S. Lewis. Same may apply to biographies. PBS' "American Experience"?
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> It mat be that scholars feel not enough is "known" about Salinger to convene
> such an event. My thinking was that it would focus on the work far more than
> the man.
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> (wishful)
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> Bijan