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"Once you put feed out, they keep coming back. If you
forget or go away for the winter, they'll starve. They won't know
to look for another place," J.D. Salinger muses as he fills
a bird feeder. In Susan Miller's thoughtfully conceived Arts
and Leisure he could be referring to his brief published literary
output and the generations of sophomores who fed on it. In particular
he could be referring to David, a college popular American literature
professor with delusions of being Holden Caulfield grown up but
who is, in reality, a Caulfield clone looking for Never Never Land.
He has never become the hero of his college years but thinks he
will find heroism renewed in Salinger's unpublished manuscripts,
the supposed secret labor of 20 years' seclusion. ... more
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