I heard the following report regarding the unpublished work of the reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, author of the classic novel Catcher in the Rye, on New York's WCBS News Radio Eight-Eighty, that was broadcast on February 3, 2019.
CBS News's Gary Nunn reported that Salinger's son told him that "his father wrote reams of work no one has ever seen. J.D. Salinger, who died nine years ago," continued Nunn, "apparently never stopped writing. Next to every chair the writer had a notebook. According to Matt Salinger, his father teemed with ideas and thoughts, saying that he'd be driving in the car, pull over to jot some ideas ** and at times he would chuckle to himself."
"No indication when the unpublished work will be released, but, "concluded Nunn, "his son says all that his father wrote will be shared."
No doubt that is very good news to Salinger's legion of fans.
**This reminded me of the re-enacted scene in the 13-part public television poetry series, Voices & Visions, that showed William Carlos Williams, a pediatrician, pulling his car over to the side of the road while between house calls, removing a prescription pad from his black bag and, with fountain pen in hand, scribbling a poem.
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