Previously unreleased J.D. Salinger stories circulating online

[WilliamPitt]

Good news for fans of J.D. Salinger: three previously unreleased short stories by the reclusive author who passed away in 2010 have begun circulating online for the first time after an illegally printed collection was auctioned off on eBay.

Buzzfeed's Summer Anne Burton broke the story on Wednesday.

The three works, "Paula," "Birthday Boy," and "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls," were previously available to researchers at the libraries at Princeton and the University of Texas, but the general public had never seen them until they uploaded to file-sharing sites Imgur and MediaFire this week.

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"The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" has long been of interest, since it features Kenneth Caulfield (later changed into Allie Caulfield in "Catcher&quot , the older brother of Holden Caulfield from "The Catcher in the Rye." The story can be viewed as an unofficial prequel to Salinger's most famous work, as it details the last day in the life of Holden's older brother.

Link: http://www.boston.com/news/source/2013/11/previously_unreleased_salinger_stories_circulating_online.html

[Lucinda]

1. Thanks! Took me a minute to track down the actual scanned files :)

This is timely. Just finished a documentary about Salinger on Netflix yesterday.

[bif]

2. Hmm…I couldn't find them.

I saw a reference to a site called what.cd but I'm not a registered user and couldn't log in.

[Lucinda]

3. I found it scanned in graphic form here:

http://imgur.com/a/64v5t

[RagAss]

6. Thanks.

[antiquie]

5. Here

http://www.mediafire.com/view/78n5ptwquvq11g6/Three%20Stories%20-%20J.%20D.%20Salinger.pdf

[bif]

10. Interesting. That page was taken down already

Looks like they're keeping close tabs on the stories.

[ok_cpu]

8. Thanks for mentioning the documentary

I looked it up and watched it last night. I had no idea it was on Netflix.

[Paolo123]

4. Why weren't they availble to the public before?

Is this an example of researchers wanting to hoard knowledge at the expense of the public?

[RagAss]

7. The author did not want them released for 50 years.

[mnhtnbb]

9. Interesting. I just finished reading Joyce Maynard's memoir, At Home in the World, in which

she provides details of her relationship--when she was 18--with Jerry Salinger. What an eye-opener.

[fayhunter]

11. Fascinating.

But since he really didn't want anything he wrote released until 50 years after his death (for whatever psycho reasons) it's a little uncomfortable reading.