J. D. Salinger

Her family's move closer to London in 1960 necessitated a change of school: SM was sent to Kidbrooke Comprehensive , which she hated. This intensified her alienation from institutionalised education. She failed most of her...

Having just had a manuscript rejected by Macmillan , she felt sure that Down (which she calls deeply influenced by Salinger 's Catcher in the Rye) was accepted because it was about young man, not a woman.

After her return to Huron County in 1975, AM became embroiled in cultural politics. Her Lives of Girls and Women was banned from a high school in Peterborough, Ontario, as immoral in early 1976...

PM issued Long Distance, a novel which was also carried in its entirety in the New Yorker (something the magazine had not done since J. D. Salinger 's Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenter, in 1955).

The novel initially received favourable reviews. In the New Statesman, critic Robert Taubmann wrote that Victoria Lucas's The Bell Jar was the first feminine novel in a Salinger mood. Some critics, however...

MS was bored by modern movements like the anti-novel, the sicks and the beats, but felt there was a place for them: they're trying things out, keeping literature alive and moving. She thought her...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...