Of the many remembrances of J.D. Salinger that have been published over the past few days, these
are the two that I enjoyed the most. The first is written by Lillian Ross of the New Yorker, who was was a close friend of Salinger’s for over fifty years:
The second is about Roger Lathbury, owner of Orchises Press, the small company that almost landed a publishing coup with Salinger’s “Hapworth 16, 1924″: