Comments (0) - Kevin Smokler

I was honored to be included in The Million's Year in Reading 2012. Every year, the online magainze The Millions asks authors to speak to what they've been writing that year. The neat part is you don't have to speak to a book that is brand new or on everyone's minds. Just whatever stood out in your year of munching through the stacks.?

I've spent the last year rereading novels assigned in high school while writing Practical Classics. So I did my little piece on Catcher in the Rye and its look at grieving. A little from it...

Let us ignore that I was that idiot in 10th grade who wore a red earflap hat and trenchcoat for a few weeks because Holden Caufield ?understood me? and move to this: How many siblings does Mr. Caufield have? We all remember younger sister Phoebe and probably older brother DB, the one working as a screenwriter out west. But do you remember Holden?s younger brother Allie, who has died recently when the novel opens? In a pivotal scene ? the one right before he meets Phoebe at the Natural History Museum ? he is wandering Park Avenue, lonesome and heartbroken, and each block reciting ?Please Allie, don?t let me die.?

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