The Film J. D. Salinger Nearly Made
What happened when a TV producer got the writer’s permission to adapt a beloved short story?
"Everyone has a labyrinth. History is mine." — Jill Lepore, discovering that J.D. Salinger nearly made a film at her Vermont farmhouse, where corncob husks had been fashioned into Colonial dolls and a Plymouth of indiscernible vintage rusted in the ravine.