If you really want to hear about it…

…the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Which quote, if you're of a certain age, might be unmistakable.

J.D. Salinger died last Wednesday at age 91. And the first sentence of his 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, changed the way I read and ultimately...