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Ian hamilton in search of jd salinger6/29/2023 ![]() The “embarrassed silence” Malcolm describes can best be illustrated by the lack of attention paid to “Hapworth” by Time magazine, the publication that featured Salinger on its cover just four years earlier. It seemed to confirm the growing critical consensus that Salinger was going to hell in a hand basket. Salinger’s “Hapworth 26, 1924″-a very long and very strange story in the form of a letter from camp written by Seymour Glass when he was seven-appeared in The New Yorker in June 1965, it was greeted with unhappy, even embarrassed silence. “Hapworth’s” reception is most concisely explained in the introduction to the article “Justice for Salinger” by Janet Malcolm: ![]() ![]() ![]() It was Salinger’s first and only published work after “Seymour: An Introduction.” Reviews, Criticism, & Commentary Seymour provides an emotional account of their time at Camp Hapworth interspersed with condescending advice to his family and rants on religion and literature in nearly 30,000 words. ![]() Published in the The New Yorker, June 19, 1965, pages 32-113 Plot Summaryīuddy Glass, age 46 transcribes a letter written by his older brother Seymour at the age of seven, when both boys were attending summer camp at Camp Simon Hapworth. Reader’s Guide kindly contributed by Kathy Gabriel. ![]()
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