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J.D. Salinger stirs.
Question: What does it take to lure reclusive author J.D. Salinger out of hiding? Answer: the threat of an unauthorized sequel to his 1951 classic “Catcher in the Rye.”
The blogosphere began buzzing a few weeks ago with reports that a writer called J.D. California would this fall publish a book called “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye” that follows the experiences of “Catcher” protagonist Holden Caufield as an elderly man.
Salinger has filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court in Manhattan saying the work infringes on his copyright and asking the court to block its publication, scheduled for September.
Salinger holds the copyright on the book. His lawsuit asserts that “the sequel is not a parody and it does not comment upon or criticize the original. It is a rip-off pure and simple.”
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Ridge Weather, the first of three novellas in “The New Valley,” by Josh Weil
It was the hay bales that did it. The men and women who knew Osby least, who nodded at him from passing trucks or said “Hey” while scanning cans of soup in the Mic-or-Mac, they might not have seen the change come over him. But the few who knew him a little better would have noticed Osby’s usual quietness grown heavier, that he stuffed his hands in his sweatshirt pocket a little more often. They would have chalked it up to him missing his father, figured it for nothing more than a rebalancing of the weight of a life that suddenly contained one instead of two people. They would have been wrong.
The truth was, it didn’t even make sense to Osby. How could rolls of old dead grass scare him so? What was the sense behind it being that — the sight of those old wasted bales on that wasted government land — that finally dug from him his tears? But it was the bales. And afterwards, he had known only that it was going to get worse.
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