Review for ARTS AND LEISURE
Written by Susan Miller

"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 He has never become the hero of his college years but thinks he will find heroism renewed in Salinger's unpublished manuscripts, the supposed secret labor of 20 years' seclusion.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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