As students tackle their summer reading lists, many will have their first encounter with Holden Caulfield. The swaggering, disaffected (and slightly more innocent) precursor to Bret Easton Ellis's ...

My enthusiasm for literature began with my father’s enthusiasm for a fart joke. One night he and I were driving home from a bad play when our conversation turned to flatulence (as conversations ...

“Holden is, for me and a lot of other people my age, the first guy to have the courage to go out and do what we’ve all contemplated during those excruciating moments in the middle of math ...

Within the next two or three years, though, I was on a forced march through a couple of schools similar to Pencey Prep, from which J.D. Salinger's 16-year-old protagonist Holden Caulfield is ...

Holden Caulfield is exactly one year older than I am. He entered my life when I was 15 and brilliantly unself-aware in the hyper self-awareness of the late ‘60s. It never occurred to me, a ...

Fifty years ago, just before winter break, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield got kicked out of Pencey Prepatory School because he was flunking every class but English. It was his fourth expulsion.

Since his debut in 1951, Holden Caulfield — the funny, complex, wry protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye — has given voice to generations of teens caught between youth and ...

GOD KNOWS it’s never been hard to find a 16-year-old boy who feels like he screws everything up and responds by yelling that it doesn’t matter because everyone’s all a bunch of je… ...

Since his debut in 1951, Holden Caulfield — the funny, complex, wry protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye — has given voice to generations of teens caught between youth and ...

Precocious and a natural ham, this Holden isn't fazed by growing up in New York City or being named after J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield from "Catcher in the Rye". An 8-year old at a downtown ...