J. D. Salinger:
Writing As Religion
J. D. Salinger's last book, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, was published in 1963. His last New Yorker short story appeared in 1965. Since then, he has published nothing, even as his most famous book, The Catcher in the Rye (1951), continues to sell some 400,000 copies a year. The author of a recent article in the New York Times Magazine as-serted that Salinger "retreated to a New England fortress when he could no...