“Catcher in the Rye sequel”
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Why?
Good for Salinger. They’re *his* characters, and the book isn’t out of copyright yet. I hope the publisher loses his/her shirt on this. They should have known better than to try to steal intellectual rights.
Whoever ripped him off should also be charged with stupidity beyond all bounds. Salinger is 90 years old. In a few more years he could have sold the book on the news of Salinger passing away with little chance of opposition.
Salinger’s still alive?
It will be interesting to see whether the case has a different outcome than the sequel to “Gone with the Wind” written from a so-called “black” or slave perspective called “The Wind Done Gone.” The difference, of course, is that GWTW was politically incorrect and the slave perspective was culturally necessary.
In that case the court reached the bizarre holding that the unauthorized sequel was satire and should be permitted to be published over the objections of the author’s estate.
The New York Times heavily promoted the unauthorized GWTW sequel through multiple articles. However, very few copies were sold nonetheless, if memory serves me correctly.
Not entertaining to me and that Holden fellow has issues.
Catcher & 2KillAMkngBd was stuffed in our heads. Have avoided teen-drama & Southern Apologetics since.