Every year in November or December I spend a few hours rereading one of my favorite Christmas novels: “The Joyous Season,” by Patrick Dennis. It’s the tale of a pair of Manhattan siblings whose parents’ marriage implodes over one Christmas in the mid-1960s, and over the years it has had me laughing aloud on planes, […]
Tag Archives: The Catcher in the Rye
Well, it looks like I am never going to own J.D. Salinger’s toilet. Just for the record, the word “toilet” appears five times in Salinger’s masterpiece, “The Catcher in the Rye,” usually in the context of “toilet articles.” Twice it is modified by “crumby.” Earlier this month, what may have been the Salinger toilet was […]
