Well, I guess it's time to Emily Dickinson it up.

It'll be interesting to see if anything is published now that he's dead.

This is fascinating:

Meanwhile, Mr. Salinger had been drafted. He served with the Counter Intelligence Corps of the Fourth Infantry Division, whose job was to interview Nazi deserters and sympathizers, and was stationed for a while in Tiverton, Devonshire, the setting for “For Esmé — With Love and Squalor,” probably the most deeply felt of the “Nine Stories.” On June 6, 1944, he landed at Utah Beach, and he later saw action during the Battle of the Bulge.

In 1945 he was hospitalized for “battle fatigue” — often a euphemism for a breakdown — and after recovering, he stayed on in Europe past the end of the war chasing Nazi functionaries. He married a German woman, very briefly — a doctor about whom biographers have been able to discover very little. Her name was Sylvia, Margaret Salinger said, but Mr. Salinger always called her Saliva.

Somebody needs to write a story about that! He'd hate it, but it's very ripe material.

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In 1974, in a rare interview given to The New York Times, he said: "I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure." In her memoir, his daughter Margaret Salinger noted that he did keep writing, and set up a detailed filing system for his unpublished manuscripts: "A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this 'as is,' blue meant publish but edit first, and so on."

Sumi, The first four books of The Vampire Diaries are completely different from the newest one (they were also written about twenty years ago and it feels like the author didn't bother brushing up on them before continuing the series last year).

In my opinion, they're worth reading, especially if you're watching the tv series and want to see all the differences between the books and the show. (I read them growing up and loved them!)

Just avoid the newer books like the plague!

"A red mark meant, if I die before I finish my work, publish this 'as is,' blue meant publish but edit first, and so on."

Wow, so there will likely be a flood of new Salinger stuff? That's amazing.

And will make me think of him as being like Tupac.

Probably the only time that will happen, Jesse.

Right??

“For Esmé — With Love and Squalor,”

Oh, that's probably the source of the character name Esme Squalor from A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Yes, that's me. I know my Lemony Snickett, but not so much about Salinger.

Well, I guess it's time to Emily Dickinson it up.

Interesting.

Well, the bright spot in an otherwise shitty day is that the sequel to "e" is out ... "e2". That's pretty much the only good thing to happen to me today, other than actually getting out for a "lunch" break.