“... into 2021: in a Pierre Cardin obituary; in a Gerry Marsden obituary; in a documentary about J.D. Salinger; in one of Netflix’s numberless true crime productions (viz, a reconstructed FBI interview with Charles Manson, peddling his ‘blame it on the Beatles’ spiel); a ‘previously unseen’ Beatles-at-home photo from 1963; a ‘previously ...”

“... Julian Moynihan announced in the New York Times, ‘Jewish writers – Bernard Malamud, J.D. Salinger, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, inter alia – have emerged as a dominant movement in our literature. Herzog, in several senses, is the great pay-off book of that movement. It is a masterpiece, the first the movement has produced.’ Herzog not only had ...”

“... roulette would employ in the attempt such a tinky-winky Roscoe.In the last paragraph of J.D. Salinger’s story ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’, the suicidal main character Seymour Glass, on holiday in Florida with his young wife, shoots himself in the head with (Salinger specifies) ‘an Ortgies 7.65 ...”