Monday, April 19, 2010

Finding J.D.

While Mr. Kunkle is probably enjoying jury duty at this very moment, I'm trying to find the infamous J.D. Salinger. Not literally of course, because I haven't left the high school looking for a dead man most likely buried somewhere in New England. I'm looking more for his influence in literature and popular culture, to find a part of him that is still in the real world. His name has been used in songs like "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, Green Day's "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?", "6 Minutes" by the Jonas Brothers (that alone would make me a hermit), "Catcher in the Rye" by Guns and Roses, and the 2000 movie Finding Forrester was loosely based on his life.
So my task for you is to find yet another part of Salinger somewhere in the world, no matter how small the reference. Good luck!

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