by Tom DeWolf | Aug 31, 2014 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
I read a review of My Salinger Year, by Joanna Rakoff, in Entertainment Weekly last month. Though I had a pile of other books to read, the review inspired me to reserve this one at the library. It came in the same time as two other books high on my ‘must read...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 1, 2013 | Author Stuff, Writing, Books, Reviews
J.D. Salinger was born January 1, 1919. He died 91 years later on January 27, 2010. Catcher in the Rye was his only novel; published in 1951. A few years ago I pulled out Catcher and began typing it word-for-word into my computer. I wanted to know what it felt like to...