Although I'm sure I'll read whatever comes out (since I have everything Salinger published on my shelf), I confess to being somewhat nervous.
While I think great writers write the books they themselves want to read, I wonder if writing for decades in a complete bubble, with no feedback from readers of any stripe, with no back and forth with an editor, is necessarily a good thing. Even for a gifted writer. I'm fervently hoping he didn't go off the rails.
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