Readers salivate over Salinger's unpublished manuscripts
by McNally Robinson - Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:27am
has been dead a scant two weeks but already people are
clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974
interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever gave), Salinger
said, "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I
love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure." And the
prospect that the author was writing - and not publishing - has fans all a-
twitter at the notion that there may be new work forthcoming once the vaults
are thrown open.
Quillblog (Quill & Quire, Canada's Magazine of Book News and Reviews) would
like to caution Salinger's many fans about the dangers of being overly
enthusiastic. Posthumously published work by renowned authors is not always
everything it's cracked up to be.
has been dead a scant two weeks but already people are
clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available. In a 1974
interview (one of the few the famously reclusive author ever gave), Salinger
said, "Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I
love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure." And the
prospect that the author was writing - and not publishing - has fans all a-
twitter at the notion that there may be new work forthcoming once the vaults
are thrown open.
Quillblog (Quill & Quire, Canada's Magazine of Book News and Reviews) would
like to caution Salinger's many fans about the dangers of being overly
enthusiastic. Posthumously published work by renowned authors is not always
everything it's cracked up to be.
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