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What's in Salinger's Safe?
ABC News ^ | January 29, 2010 | HILLEL ITALIE

Posted on 01/29/2010 12:40:37 PM PST by Daffynition

The death this week of J.D. Salinger ends one of literature's most mysterious lives and intensifies one of its greatest mysteries: Was the author of "The Catcher in the Rye" keeping a stack of finished, unpublished manuscripts in a safe in his house in Cornish, N.H? Are they masterpieces, curiosities or random scribbles?

And if there are publishable works, will the author's estate release them?

The Salinger camp isn't talking.

No comment, says his literary representative, Phyllis Westberg, of Harold Ober Associates Inc.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; History
KEYWORDS: iloveyou; jdsalinger
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To: Daffynition

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21 posted on 01/29/2010 1:34:09 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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22 posted on 01/29/2010 1:40:58 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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“His Majesty is like a dose of clap!”


23 posted on 01/29/2010 5:21:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Fanny and Zoophile.

Seymour Butts (Seymour Glass's cousin).

24 posted on 01/30/2010 1:23:46 PM PST by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Nonstatist
He did like 'em young, no question about that. Just ask Joyce Maynard.


25 posted on 01/30/2010 1:28:37 PM PST by cynwoody
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