Table Of Contents:
Introduction 1(5)

Good-bye, Holden Caulfield. I Mean It. Go! Good-bye! 6(9)

Walter Kirn

The Peppy Girls of Friendswood, Texas 15(12)

Rene Steinke

Salinger and Sobs 27(28)

Charles D'Ambrosio

Salinger's Daughter: Whining Bitch (Or ``How I Became the Voice of Youth'') 55(7)

Emma Forrest

The Importance of Wax and 0lives 62(16)

Aleksander Hemon

The Trouble with Franny 78(10)

Lucinda Rosenfeld

Franny and Amy 88(16)

Amy Sohn

The Boy That Had Created the Disturbance Reflections on Minor Characters in Life and The Catcher in the Rye 104(13)

John McNally

Normal People 117(13)

Karen E. Bender

The Salinger Weather 130(20)

Thomas Beller

An Unexamined Life 150(12)

Benjamin Anastas

Holden Schmolden 162(8)

Aimee Bender

The Yips 170(7)

Joel Stein

Holden Caulfield: A Love Story 177(10)

Jane Mendelsohn
Contributors' Notes 187(6)
Bibliography 193