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The Jazz Standard Relative Of J.D. Salinger's Glass Family, With A Dash Of Casablanca

The recent news that fifty years' worth of J.D. Salinger's writings will eventually be posthumously published ("soon or Soon," to lift a phrase from the author himself) has

https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/play-it-in-the-closet-the-return-farewell-of-jd-salinger/

The war-haunted darkness of much of Salinger's fiction has come into greater focus/relief in recent years, prompted by the biographical detail unearthed by Kenneth Slawenski and others regarding the author's military service during World War II.

The wintry weather, the icy, overcast late afternoon and early twilight world of "Uncle Wiggily In Connecticut" delineates the emotional landscape of Eloise

The Bill Evans Trio's live recording of "My Foolish Heart" from 1961:

Evans and Tony Bennett's 1975 version: