before nine

here’s a list of what i’ve been reading at the subway over the past couple of days:

a perfect day for bananafish
uncle wiggily in connecticut
just before the war with the eskimos
the laughing man
down at the dinghy
for esmé - with love and squalor
pretty mouth and green my eyes
de daumier-smith's blue period
teddy


those stories were lifted from jd salinger’s nine stories, which is one of my favorite story collections.

the story of teddy just shocked me this morning. what a shocker. i have to write sister irma and esme about it.