Day: January 2, 2009

A Memoir In Progress

I was a frustrated software developer and unpublished novelist working at a Wall Street bank in 1993 when I first heard of a strange and exciting new phenomenon taking place on our computer networks: email, Usenet newsgroups and the World Wide Web. A new communications technology was about to change … Read the rest

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Glass Houses

1. Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919 — ninety years ago today. Charles McGrath offers some new observations about the relationship between J. D. Salinger and his second most enduring character, Seymour Glass, and wonders what might motivate Salinger’s ongoing and unyielding pursuit of solitude and silence. … Read the rest

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