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This is a poster print of the American author JD Salinger (1919-2010), best known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The caption reads: This is JD Salinger. And no, he wont be returning your call. After The Catcher in the Rye caught on Salinger became increasingly (and famously) reclusive. Recommended Reading. Salinger Chris Kubica. Letters to J.D.Salinger includes more than 150 personal letters addressed to Salinger from well-known writers, editors, critics, journalists, and other luminaries, as well as from students, teachers, and readers around the world, some of whom have just discovered Salinger for the first time. Their voices testify to the lasting.
Airs Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBSTV
Blue Melody Jd Salinger
'Blue Melody', originally titled 'Needle on a Scratchy Phonograph Record' is a story of Jazz and segregation. It follows a promising Jazz singer as her career climbs, only to have it end when her appendicitis bursts and no hospital will treat her. Shaken and Stirred: Tactile Imagery and Narrative Immediacy in J.D. Salinger's 'Blue Melody,' 'A Girl I Knew,' and 'Just Before the War with the Eskimos' Angelica E Bega First and foremost, I gratefully acknowledge the patience, rigor and support put forth by my thesis advisor, Dr. Blue Melody Cosmopolitan, September 1948, pages 50-51, 112-119 Originally to be titled Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record.
Friday, January 17, 2014
By Jennifer Robinson
Credit: Courtesy of Antony Di Gesu
Above: J.D. Salinger with signature cigarette.
Filmmaker Shane Salerno's 10-year investigation culminates in the first work to get beyond 'The Catcher in the Rye' author's impenetrable wall of privacy and seclusion. AMERICAN MASTERS presents the exclusive, never-before-seen director's cut of 'Salinger' as the series' 200th episode, featuring 15 minutes of new material.
Salinger is an intricately structured mystery that reveals the author's private world: how World War II influenced his life and work, his painstaking writing methods, his many relationships with young women, and the literary secrets he left behind after his death in 2010.
The documentary features interviews with some 150 subjects including Salinger's friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who speak on the record for the first time, as well as previously unseen film footage, photographs and other materials.
Participants including E.L. Doctorow, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Pulitzer Prize-winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank, actors Martin Sheen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, playwright John Guare and Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne all share Salinger's influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture.
AMERICAN MASTERS is on Facebook. Past episodes of AMERICAN MASTERS are available for online viewing.
American Masters: Salinger Trailer
Salinger's Work in World War II Army Intelligence
Spirituality and Meditation in Salinger's Writing
'The Catcher in the Rye' as a Revolt Against the 1950s
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and professor Elizabeth Frank credits J.D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' with pointing out the dreariness and hypocrisy of the early 1950's. 'I think that The Catcher in the Rye was a very revolutionary book for the America of of the early 1950's. It truly was an era of conformity. I remember the 50s and I'm glad that they're over with.'
Edward Norton's Analysis of 'The Catcher in the Rye'
Salinger vs. Hemingway in Characters Voicing Their Sincerity
Salinger's Last Story in Cosmopolitan, 'Blue Melody'
Editor, novelist and playwright A.E. Hotchner talks about J.D. Salinger's last short story in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1948. Then Salinger's friend and a Cosmopolitan editor, Hotchner had been warned by Salinger that 'not one word can be changed' in the story. Unbeknownst to Hotchner, others had made a single edit. Salinger's title 'Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record' became 'Blue Melody.'
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Credit: Courtesy of Antony Di Gesu
Above: J.D. Salinger with signature cigarette.
Filmmaker Shane Salerno's 10-year investigation culminates in the first work to get beyond 'The Catcher in the Rye' author's impenetrable wall of privacy and seclusion. AMERICAN MASTERS presents the exclusive, never-before-seen director's cut of 'Salinger' as the series' 200th episode, featuring 15 minutes of new material.
Salinger is an intricately structured mystery that reveals the author's private world: how World War II influenced his life and work, his painstaking writing methods, his many relationships with young women, and the literary secrets he left behind after his death in 2010.
The documentary features interviews with some 150 subjects including Salinger's friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who speak on the record for the first time, as well as previously unseen film footage, photographs and other materials.
Participants including E.L. Doctorow, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Pulitzer Prize-winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank, actors Martin Sheen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, playwright John Guare and Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne all share Salinger's influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture.
AMERICAN MASTERS is on Facebook. Past episodes of AMERICAN MASTERS are available for online viewing.
American Masters: Salinger Trailer
Salinger's Work in World War II Army Intelligence
Spirituality and Meditation in Salinger's Writing
'The Catcher in the Rye' as a Revolt Against the 1950s
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and professor Elizabeth Frank credits J.D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' with pointing out the dreariness and hypocrisy of the early 1950's. 'I think that The Catcher in the Rye was a very revolutionary book for the America of of the early 1950's. It truly was an era of conformity. I remember the 50s and I'm glad that they're over with.'
Edward Norton's Analysis of 'The Catcher in the Rye'
Salinger vs. Hemingway in Characters Voicing Their Sincerity
Salinger's Last Story in Cosmopolitan, 'Blue Melody'
Editor, novelist and playwright A.E. Hotchner talks about J.D. Salinger's last short story in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1948. Then Salinger's friend and a Cosmopolitan editor, Hotchner had been warned by Salinger that 'not one word can be changed' in the story. Unbeknownst to Hotchner, others had made a single edit. Salinger's title 'Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record' became 'Blue Melody.'
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Want more KPBS news?
Find us on Twitter and Facebook, or sign up for our newsletters. + Subscribe to our podcasts
To view PDF documents, Download Acrobat Reader.
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