Introduction xiii
Part I Brahmacharya: Apprenticeship
1 We're Going To Start The War From Right Here
3(27)
2 Slight Rebellion Off Park Avenue
30(72)
Conversation With Salinger #1
94(8)
3 Six-Feet-Two Of Muscle And Typewriter Ribbon In A Foxhole
102(21)
Conversation With Salinger #2
119(4)
4 Inverted Forest
123(18)
Conversation With Salinger #3
139(2)
5 Dead Men In Winter
141(14)
6 Still Burning
155(13)
7 Victim And Perpetrator
168(20)
8 Measuring Up
188(31)
Conversation With Salinger #4
217(2)
9 The Origin Of ESMÉ
219(24)
10 Is The Kid In This Book Crazy?
243(27)
11 We Can Still Run Away
270(33)
Conversation With Salinger #5
293(10)
12 Follow The Bullet: Nine Stories
303(16)
Conversation With Salinger #6
315(4)
Part II Garhasthya: Householder Duties
13 His Long Dark Night
319(33)
14 A Terrible, Terrible Fall
352(43)
Conversation With Salinger #7
391(1)
Conversation With Salinger #8
392(3)
Part III Vanaprasthya: Withdrawal From Society
15 Seymours Second Suicide
395(14)
Conversation With Salinger #9
408(1)
16 Dear Miss Maynard
409(11)
17 Dear Mr. Salinger
420(41)
Conversation With Salinger #10
444(7)
Conversation With Salinger #11
451(3)
Conversation With Salinger #12
454(7)
18 Assassins
461(30)
Part IV Sannyasa: Renunciation Of The World
19 A Private Citizen
491(52)
20 A Million Miles Away In His Tower
543(17)
21 Jerome David Salinger: A Conclusion
560(12)
22 Secrets
572(5)
Fiction In Chronological Order Of Publication 577(4)
Lost Stories, Uncollected 581(4)
Stories, And Published Letters The Glass Family 585(4)
Biographical Notes 589(20)
Notes 609(40)
Bibliography 649(36)
Acknowledgments 685