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Topic: Holden Caulfield

A young man reading "The Catcher in the Rye" (Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Was Holden Caulfield performative?

Andi Zeisler
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Teaching classics in prison

Bill Smoot

Salinger's youth obsession

Laura Miller