![]() ![]() This book is both a pleasure and an education.”-Meghan Daum Praise for How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood “Beller casts himself as both hero and hapless sidekick-just the guide you want for a jaunt down memory lane.”-Adena Spingarn, Vogue “These quite marvelous and darkly hilarious personal essays derive their power from shameless honesty, often about the most shameful moments.”-Phillip Lopate “ is disarmingly self-deprecatory and gets his laughs, of which the book has a number, mainly at his own expense.”-Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post “An enjoyably mature read.”-Gilbert Cruz, Entertainment Weekly “ can write his butt off.”-Donnell Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle “His essays shimmer with comedy and insight and exuberance. A wonderfully personal portrait, telling in every detail, gesture, remark, and reflection.”-Daniel Menaker “It’s hard to imagine a more perfect pairing of author and subject than Thomas Beller and J. D. ![]() Salinger’s life and art from six or seven angles, all of them acute. . . . ![]() Salinger is hugely readable I c ouldn’t put it down.”-Patricia Bosworth “This book approaches J. D. Beller supplies us with what’s needed now-a book that shines with a deep personal passion for the writer.”-Edmund White “This mesmerizing brief biography captures the many sides of Salinger’s complicated personality. . . . offers h ere an exceptionally well-researched, deeply felt, and thoughtful exploration of the elusive author’s history, in which he probes Salinger’s life and prickly familial ties, and their manifestation in his timeless characters and settings.”-Publishers Weekly “In this genre-bending nonfiction delight, a Tulane professor and contributor to The New Yorker tells a story of literary obsession, deftly folding a slim Salinger bio into a memoir of his own pursuit of the elusive literary icon.”-The Times-Picayune “The objective, exhaustive biographies of Salinger have been published. A fine and stirring portrait of a haunted literary artist.” -Booklist (starred review) “Rather than writing a straightforward biography, Beller. Not much escapes him.”-The New York Times Book Review “Beller writes with intelligence and insight”-Los Angeles Times “Beller offers a uniquely literary inquiry into the combatively reclusive and epically blocked author of The Catcher in the Rye and beloved short story collections. . . . Salinger is the story of the resonance of its subject, but it is also the story of a generous, humorous, sensitive writer, which is to say Thomas Beller. Salinger: The Escape Artist “Irresistible. PRAISE FOR THOMAS BELLER Praise for J. D. Table of contents : project_muse_103616-3257311 10.1515_9781478023449 CONTENTS ACRONYMS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION The Court on Horatio Street Spree Damian Lillard’s Game-Winning Shot The City Game James Harden’s Transcendent Step-Back Homicide at the Playground Coach Anthony Davis and the Plight of the Modern NBA Big Man The Maserati Kid The NBA Kaleidoscope Most Definitely The All-Star Game Diaries The Two-Thousand- Dollar Popsicle Here We Go Again: On the 2018 Cavaliers-Warriors NBA Finals Loitering Backstage at the NBA The Earth Is Round and Kyrie Irving The Nets Lost in the Game The Pleasures of the Old Man Game The Warriors’ Torrential Victory French Math at the NBA Draft Zion’s Burst Pandemic Playgrounds The Jokić Files Bol Bol on an Escalator Outscoring My Father Citation preview ![]()
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