read this over multiple lunches. the simple joys!
i’m surprised at just how beautiful that ending is. perfectly delivers on it’s themes of the relationship between joy and impermanence.
read this in preparation for some upcoming non-fiction essay/interview/journalism stuff I am going to be doing soon, and wow - this really impresse...
so much of salinger’s writing is preoccupied with cynicism vs love. everyone knows holden’s rants about phoniness, but salinger's writing is just a...