It was on this day in 1948 that J.D. Salinger’s first story was published in the New Yorker. A Perfect Day for Bananafish remains Salinger’s most famous single story, and the introduction to the Glass Family.
If you’ve never read it, here it is.
Saturday
April 20, 2024
Since 2002
"This ain't football. We do this every day."
--Earl Weaver
--Earl Weaver
Thanks, Alex.
There was a millinery on Madison Ave. called Suzanne's for many years.
What a disturbing story. All the characters were so oddly disconnected even in conversation. It played into Salinger's pathology. I suppose Holden Caufield (sp) was similarly absent or detached. Yet, he was easy to related to.
Like A Perfect Day for Bananfish, no one in Franny and Zooey was particularly likable. Perhaps they were all parts of Salinger's psyche.