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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 4 February 2019

Open the vaults: Unpublished Salinger work to be released

By HILLEL ITALIE disappoint people that he work but rejected any reis-
Associated Press wouldn’t care about, but sues or e-book editions of
NEW YORK (AP) — One of for real readers . I think it his published material. This
the book world’s greatest will be tremendously well year marks the centennial
mysteries is finally ending: received by those people of his birth and signs of a
J.D. Salinger’s son says pre- and they will be affected new openness emerged in
viously unpublished work in the way every reader 2018 when his estate per-
by his late father will be hopes to be affected when mitted new covers and a
coming out. they open a book. Not boxed edition of his old
In comments that ap- changed, necessarily, but fiction to come out for the
peared Friday in The something rubs off that can 100th anniversary. A Salin-
Guardian, Matt Salinger lead to change.” ger exhibit is planned later
confirmed longstanding Longtime Salinger publisher this year at the New York
reports that the author of Little, Brown and Company Public Library, and other
“The Catcher in the Rye” had no comment Friday. promotional events are in
had continued to write J.D. Salinger published just the works. Salerno wrote in
decades after he stopped This Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, file photo shows copies of J.D. four books in his lifetime: an email Friday to The As-
Salinger’s classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye” as well as his
publishing books. He said volume of short stories called “Nine Stories” at the Orange Public “Nine Stories,” ‘’The Catch- sociated Press that “it was
that he and Salinger’s Library in Orange Village, Ohio. er in the Rye,” ‘’Franny and always his (J.D. Salinger’s)
widow, Colleen, are “go- Associated Press Zooey” and a volume with intention — and specific di-
ing as fast as we freaking “This was somebody who might be years away and the two novellas “Raise rection — to have his work
can” to prepare the mate- was writing for 50 years did not cite any specific High the Roof Beam, Car- published after his death.”
rial for release. “He wanted without publishing, so titles or plots. He did indi- penters and Seymour: An “I’m thrilled that Salinger
me to pull it together, and that’s a lot of material. So cate that the Glass family Introduction.” The last work fans around the world will
because of the scope of there’s not a reluctance made famous in such fic- to come out in his lifetime finally get to see this impor-
the job, he knew it would or a protectiveness: When tion as “Franny and Zooey” was the story “Hapworth tant work from one of Amer-
take a long time,” Salinger it’s ready, we’re going to would be seen again. “I 16, 1924,” which appeared ica’s finest writers,” Salerno
said of his father, who died share it,” he said. feel the pressure to get this in The New Yorker in 1965. added. “As the stories roll
in 2010 and had not pub- Salinger, who helps over- done, more than he did,” Salinger rarely spoke to out over the years, I think
lished work since the mid- see his father’s literary es- he said, adding that the the media and not only you will find that all of our
1960s. tate, says any new work unseen work “will definitely stopped releasing new reporting was correct.”q