Artist Anne Zahalka credits Holden Caulfield, the fictional character in The Catcher in the Rye, for changing the way she approached her art. While working in New York in the early 1980s ...

Many classic works of literature, including “The Odyssey,” “Catcher in the Rye,” “Brave New World,” and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” have sexually explicit scenes.

Old Oscars memory. Harvey Weinstein, then-Miramax chief, once wanted to make a film based on “The Catcher in the Rye.” Reclusive author J.D. Salinger wasn’t eager on selling film rights.

CLOWN ON FIRE by Aaron Judah. 211 pages. Dial. $4.50. The reader will quickly recognize him as a literary cousin of Holden Caulfield. —Jacket blurb I mean I recognized the goddam kid right away.

Find out more at the Young Reporter website. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger depicts a few days in the life of 17-year-old Holden Caulfield after he gets kicked out of his prestigious ...

In the course of 277 pages the reader wearies of this kind ... sister Phoebe—have nothing like his authenticity. The Catcher in the Rye is a brilliant tour-de-force, but in a writer of Salinger ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --A copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye was returned to a Manitoba library more than 33 years after its due date. Jennifer Walton said she and her husband were doing some ...

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