SOURCE: "Finally (Fashionably) Spurious," in National Review: A Journal of Fact and Opinion, Vol. XI, No. 20, November 18, 1961, pp. 341-42.
In the following negative review of Franny and Zooey, Didion discusses the didactic quality of Salinger's prose.
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