Oh, man, Blossom Dearie died!You know, of:
I wonder: somewhere, maybe Joyce Maynard's book or that May 1997 Esquire article on "Searching for Salinger", but, yes, somewhere, I read that Blossom Dearie was Salinger's favorite singer.
What if, Watchmen-style, someone is picking off people associated with Salinger???
I mean, Updike skewered Franny and Zooey pretty thoroughly (see Assorted Prose).
Indeed, a simple Google image search for Shirley Blaney, who interviewed Jerome for his last public utterances [well, except for a 1974 phoner with the NYT, but it plays into the Myth better to stick with this here other] to the high school paper in Cornish, NH, one gets just pages and pages of the same "terrifying" image:
Something's up.
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