{"id":624,"date":"2009-06-02T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/06\/jd-salinger-sues-jd-california-for-phony-sequel.html"},"modified":"2009-06-02T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T11:28:56","slug":"jd-salinger-sues-jd-california-for-phony-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/06\/jd-salinger-sues-jd-california-for-phony-sequel.html","title":{"rendered":"JD Salinger sues JD California for Phony Sequel to Catcher in the Rye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1010wins.com\/pages\/4512245.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=4099583\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"518\" alt=\"Salinger.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/Salinger.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\">JD Salinger is suing pseudonymous John David California<\/a> for penning an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye.&nbsp; The 90-year-old reclusive author, currently living in New Hampshire, objects to California&#8217;s projection in which Holden Caulfield, at 76 years old, escapes from his retirement home and wanders the streets of New York City. <\/p>\n<p><\/span>Salinger insists that if he wanted to write a sequel he would have, and that his wish and right is for his boy Holden to remain in vague and angsty adolescence.&nbsp; The lawsuit rests on whether the sequel is considered a parody &#8211; a criticism or comment on the work and therefore kosher &#8211; or whether California is stealing Salinger&#8217;s ideas for his own personal profit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>As Salinger is still living, I think he has a right to protect his work.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5254647\/catcher-in-the-rye-sequel--actual-disaster-or-lame-hoax\"> (And I also pretty much&nbsp;accord with the first line of this Gawker entry about a previous attempt at a CITR sequel<\/a>).&nbsp; I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with posthumous literary houses arguing against sequels or parodies, and I believe famously guarded estates like <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O%27Connor\">Flannery O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Beckett\">Samuel Beckett&#8217;s<\/a> do favor to neither the world nor the writer.&nbsp; (Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to see a Beckett play in which the characters weren&#8217;t all dressed like Buster Keaton?) But as long as JD holds stake in the phenomenal earth, if he doesn&#8217;t want us to picture Holden as a crumpled geriatric, he doesn&#8217;t have to.&nbsp; And when he dies we can have as many &#8220;what if Holden Caulfield grew up and became a cult leader of a Utopian community in Burkina Fasso&#8221; riffs&nbsp;as we want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; JD Salinger is suing pseudonymous John David California for penning an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye.&nbsp; The 90-year-old reclusive author, currently living in New Hampshire, objects to California&#8217;s projection in which Holden Caulfield, at 76 years old, escapes from his retirement home and wanders the streets of New York City. 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