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… ...

So The Catcher in the Rye may have enriched a few vocabularies. But despite the book’s enormous popularity, Holden Caulfield did not become the Pied Piper of doom for American youth.

Dec. 21st 2013 4:00 PM — Ned Vizzini was a gifted young-adult novelist who tragically took his own life Friday at the age of 32. In 2011, he wrote this essay for The Daily Beast on 60 years of ...

HOLDEN CAULFIELD AT 50 Share this: Click to share on ... One of the things that Holden Caulfield ponders in “Catcher in the Rye” is what happens to the ducks in the Central Park duck pond when ...

CAN I PUT YOU ON HOLDEN? Reading “The Catcher in the Rye” today is to identify with Holden Caulfield’s dissatisfaction with life’s limits and to share in the rare comforts he finds.

The Catcher in the Rye, a book everyone loves to love, celebrates its 65th anniversary this month, and I settled down once again for a couple of hours in the familiar company of Holden Caulfield.

First Watch: Dandy Warhols, 'Catcher In The Rye' Like the song's namesake novel, the video opens on a sullen Holden Caulfield character, complete with a red hunting cap and a suitcase in hand ...

IDEAS Holden Caulfield, 70 years on The protagonist of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ spoke for a generation. Does his voice resonate still?

Author J.D. Salinger, whose immortal teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield of "Catcher in the Rye," wondered where the ducks from the Central Park pond go in winter, died Wednesday at his home in ...

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… ...