American Scholar, June 22nd, 1999
A life-long reader analyzes the personality similarities between writers and their readers. J. D. Salinger's 'Franny and Zooey,' became a psychological touchstone for the reader, who retained the characteristics of an adolescent loner well into college.
No one becomes a reader except in answer to some baffling inner necessity, of the kind that leads people to turn cartwheels outside the 7-Eleven, jump headlong through a plate-glass window, join the circus, or buy a low-end foreign car when the nearest appropriate auto-repair shop is fifty miles away. With these dramatic examples fresh in your...
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