Tag Archives: Carl Strauch

J.D : the winsome as unfair advantage

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

A part of the charge of immaturity often brought against J.D. Salinger is the fact that he did not deal with mature love. The implication is that he “escapes” from sex. It is an open question whether this escape is … Continue reading →

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view from the cliff

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Dave

So long and thanks for all the fish.Even if it is hard to catch the imagery of fish frozen in ice as anything positive and constructive, a kind of purgatory state that is not fully human, but potentially on the … Continue reading →

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the huck of it: the enviable goddam silences

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave

Like Huck Finn, to whom Holden Caulfield is constantly compared, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye is usually described as a rebel, either against the materialism and ugliness of “our society” or against the realities of the adult … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Alfred Kazin, Anatole Grunwald, Carl Strauch, Claire Douglas, Eloise Perry hazard, Ernest Heingway, George Steiner, Henry Grunwald, Huckleberry Finn, Ihab Hassan, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Jack Skow, James Bryan, John Aldridge, Mark Twain, Maxwell Geismer, Peter Martin The Landsmen, Sumitra Panikar, Warren French | Leave a comment

blank pages: writing something deep inside

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Dave

In J.D. Salinger’s work, persons and objects, even when they are part of the commonplace, assumed a certain glow that could not be conveyes in lengthy quotations out of context. It is this quality that most strongly linked Salinger to … Continue reading →