Holden at Fifty
Louis Menand on J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” and on the persistent power of Holden Caulfield, fifty years after the book’s publication.
"'The Catcher in the Rye' was turned down by The New Yorker. The editors told Salinger that the precocity of the four Caulfield children was not believable." — Menand on Holden's contentious debut