June 8th, 2009 / 4:23 pm
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The Onion has still got it

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Although the sole film made from Salinger’s work, My Foolish Heart, based on his short story “Uncle Wiggily In Connecticut,” was considered by Salinger to be such a bastardization of his prose that he never agreed to another adaptation, he now states that “if McG wants to do any of my stuff—’A Perfect Day For Bananafish’; Raise High The Roof Beam, Carpenters; hell, all of Nine Stories—he has my complete permission. Anything. Anything he wants.”

Read it all here, and deal with how comparatively unfunny we truly are.

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5 Comments

  1. June 8th, 2009 / 9:53 pm Lincoln—

      Besides setting the literary community abuzz, Salinger’s decision to come out of seclusion has allowed scholars access to his massive archive of unpublished work for the first time. So far, critics have examined three never-before-seen novels, eight novellas, and more than two dozen short stories—all of which appear to be Terminator fan fiction.

      “But make no mistake,” said Salinger expert Professor Duane Hartworth of nearby Dartmouth College, “this is without a doubt the most personal and affecting body of Terminator fan fiction ever discovered.”

  2. June 8th, 2009 / 5:53 pm Lincoln—

      Besides setting the literary community abuzz, Salinger’s decision to come out of seclusion has allowed scholars access to his massive archive of unpublished work for the first time. So far, critics have examined three never-before-seen novels, eight novellas, and more than two dozen short stories—all of which appear to be Terminator fan fiction.

      “But make no mistake,” said Salinger expert Professor Duane Hartworth of nearby Dartmouth College, “this is without a doubt the most personal and affecting body of Terminator fan fiction ever discovered.”

  3. June 8th, 2009 / 9:05 pm pr—

      Holy Shit.

  4. June 9th, 2009 / 1:48 am Mike Meginnis—

      Now I’m all fantasizing about what Salinger does when he isn’t writing novels we’ll never get to see. All renting a season of 24, watching it while he eats a Lean Cuisine.

  5. June 8th, 2009 / 9:48 pm Mike Meginnis—

      Now I’m all fantasizing about what Salinger does when he isn’t writing novels we’ll never get to see. All renting a season of 24, watching it while he eats a Lean Cuisine.