What should I read after Salinger's Nine Stories?

But there's another good reason to start with the Nine Stories: they're superb. Since I quoted a lot of biting criticism of Salinger last week, I'm glad to redress the balance and turn to Eudora Welty's 1953 New York Times review for Nine Stories. read more

Salinger's published work can be divided into (1) the Caulfield stories (Catcher in the Rye plus unpublished and/or out-of-print apocrypha), (2) Nine Stories, and (3) the Glass family stories. The thing to understand, however, is that there really is no division between (2) and (3). read more

If you read the story closely, you get nearly an entire biography for the narrator in just a few pages that encompass the period before deployment, deployment itself, its aftermath, and then the return home and resumption of normal life after the end of World War II. read more

Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories,"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and"For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". read more