How He Saw New York: J.D. Salinger and the City November 9, 2010

Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1987, and is the author of Through The Children's Gate and The Steps Across The Water.

J. D. Salinger, who famously lived away from his hometown of New York for many decades, portrayed the city with great affection and intensity in The Catcher in the Rye and the Glass family stories. Adam Gopnik, who wrote the Salinger memorial in The New Yorker, will discuss the late author's vision of the city to illustrate how it altered our sense of where we live.

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