The New Republic has a piece on Salinger’s letters at the Morgan. They use the photo in question.
He writes of two “shitty literary kids” who ambushed him for the sake of a photograph: “The wonder is that I have any kind of face at all left, grim or otherwise. Piss on ’em all.”





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