As we mentioned earlier this morning, Dave Eggers, arguably one of the most actively engaged and socially involved writers (almost the living antithesis of Salinger) paid tribute to Salinger for The New Yorker, probing the question of why Salinger retreated so deeply away from the public eye. But Eggers is not alone in his remembrance:
Lillian Ross on her long friendship with Salinger.
Adam Gopnik on how Salinger “remade American writing in the fifties and sixties in a way that no one had since Hemingway.”
John Seabrook on Salinger making him popcorn for movie night.
Our own Jason Roberts remembers J. D. Salinger.
