Who recommends it
- Derek OwusoInterview
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. At times confusing reading but the language is wonderful minus the sea horse thing. Immortality by Milan Kundera. People are mistaken, this is his best work, not The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Same for Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
- Elin HilderbrandInterview
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. I read it when I was sixteen and something about Franny’s spiritual crisis struck a chord with me as I was struggling to grow up. Salinger only wrote four books, every one of them perfect. His best known, of course, is Catcher, but the other three, all chronicling the Glass family…
- Lindsay AmerInterview
I went through a big JD Salinger phase in high school and read all of his published works and loved how he built a distinctive picture of New York and a family living in New York (where I grew up) through his characters. My favorite of his is probably Franny and Zooey. There wasn’t a lot of queerness in the books I…
- J.M. DeMatteisInterview
There are a number of books I’ve read multiple times: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, The Brothers Karamozov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, the great Hindu epic The Ramayana, Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger, Ubik by Phillip K. Dick, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L…
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