For Esme — With Love and Squalor J.D. Salinger World Review Magazine, U.K. August, 1950 Time magazine called For Esme — With Love and Squalor “the warmest and best of the Nine Stories”. It was an instant huge success; according to Wikipedia, Salinger received more fan mail for it than for any other story. It first [...]
Life Shrinkage + The New Guy James P. Reynolds Crack the Spine Literary Journal, U.S.A. April and August, 2012 Having so far written about 300 posts about other people’s writing, now I am going to showcase my own fiction. Last year, Crack the Spine, an on-line literary journal, published 2 of my short stories. Life [...]
The Third Reich Roberto Bolano The Paris Review, Volumes 196 – 199, New York, 2011 These four volumes of the Paris Review constitute the true first English language printing of The Third Reich. Bolano wrote this novel in 1989, but never published it during his lifetime. It was found amongst his papers after his death [...]
For Esme — With Love and Squalor J.D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, New York, April 8, 1950 Here is one the most — if not the most — rare of the Salinger New Yorkers. It is certainly one of his most popular stories. Within two weeks of the publication of For Esme — With Love [...]
Just Before the War with the Eskimos J.D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, N.Y. June 5, 1948 Just Before the War with the Eskimos first came out in this 1948 New Yorker magazine, but is probably better known as one of the stories from Salinger’s 1953 collection Nine Stories. After Salinger’s death in 2010, a number [...]
Seymour: An Introduction J.D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, June 6, 1955, New York This is the true first edition of Salinger’s stream of conscious narrative Seymour: An Introduction. This is one of Salinger’s Glass family stories in which Seymour’s brother, Buddy, tells the story of Seymour, who committed suicide eleven years earlier in the story [...]
Hapworth 16, 1924 J.D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, New York, June 19, 1965 This short story was the last piece of J.D. Salinger’s fiction published in his lifetime. Although Salinger tried to publish it outside of this New Yorker magazine, it was never included in any collection, except for pirate editions. Reviewers, both contemporary and [...]
Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes J.D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, New York, July 14, 1951 Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes is perhaps one of Salinger’s most ironic short stories. A man calls his older friend late at night, frantically worrying about the whereabouts of his young and pretty wife. The older man talks [...]
Franny J.D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, New York, January 29, 1955 The first appearance of Franny, one of Salinger’s most revered stories, was in this 1955 New Yorker Magazine. Two years later, the New Yorker published Salinger’s novella Zooey, and in 1961 these two stories were featured in the Little, Brown and Company publication aptly [...]
Uncle Wiggily in Conneticut J. D. Salinger New Yorker Magazine, New York, March 20, 1948 Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut made its first appearance in this 1948 edition of the New Yorker, but is probably better known as one of the short stories from Salinger’s collection Nine Stories, published by Little, Brown and Company five years later. [...]