LOL.......Russ, JoeBro, and myself. Salinger made strange bedfellows. Russ hit upon the perfect line---a nerve I didn't know was there to be touched.
Karen and I were talking about him today and I couldn't come up with an apt description of what made his writing so powerful. On that issue I'm still not sure but it had an washed over me in the way Russ described so well.
Why can these weird little mothers write so damn well?
See, I am equally enamored of Truman Capote. I was re-reading one of Capote's short stories last week and when I finished all I could do was marvel at his craft. Salinger also has that effect. Maybe it was something about the times........I dunno'.............Wish I had a tenth of that ability.