Author Jay McInerney on J.D. Salinger

you are all terribly perfect and entirely wrong. salingers unpublished, unread work is awful, trite and lengthy. his early published works remain modern and known. his unknown private unread novels, not worth reading. your pedantic views are overly vague and deal too much with the “big picture”. it is better to regard a sentimental doctrinaire while considering salingers unseen works. while condemning his unread style in the lterary structures of his early printed work; we should be so exact.

compliment or insult,what did I say,for a change, think deep people

Jay McInerney was relevant, if you can call it that, for about 15 minutes back in the 80s. This is almost akin to Bret Easton Ellis tweeting about being glad that JD is dead. Who are either of them to comment on Salinger’s past or maybe future literary accomplishments? They are the kinds of self-serving PR-driven writers that Salinger detested. He probably would have liked Donna Tartt, however. Personally, I think it would be a shame if he did have a trove of unpublished work that never got published. What would have been the point of the past 50 years if he typed every day and worked on anything? An interesting conundrum: and if he didn’t want anything published, will his family honor that request? They would be sitting on a goldmine in more ways than one. The literary world never forgave Ted Hughes for burning some of his then wife Sylvia Plath’s journals. Salinger’s third wife, Colleen, has announced that she wants her privacy maintained (in an email to a local newspaper). Perhaps, if that is so, there will be no further publications.

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