Friday, January 29, 2010

Quintessential

‘Shortly before Catcher's July 1951 publication date, Salinger demanded that there be no publicity for the book whatsoever, including review copies. In the course of settling him down, Angus Cameron, the top editor at Little, Brown, delivered one of the better lines in the history of literary hand-holding: "Do you want this book published or just printed?" ’

Troy Patterson, ‘There are Two Salingers’, from Slate Magazine

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