Three of Salinger's unpublished stories have been put online. One of them, apparently, holds up well. As far as I've heard, he more or less completed it early in his career. (It contains a letter from Holden Caulfield!)
I've read a review that said the other two stories were more or less unfinished drafts.
Here's the thing. If Salinger strained and groaned and thought and giggled and ate and shat and walked around some and meandered and chased inappropriately young women and thought some more and put one word a day on a piece of paper: he would have completed 18 thousand words in 50 years.
Two words a day, 36K words.
10 words a day, 180K words (or two novels).
Ten words a day, that's all he had to do.
(The same number of words I just wrote on the preceding line.)
WTF, JD?
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