J.D. Salinger: Two of His Nine Stories

with Karen Valen

he stories in this collection introduced J.D. Salinger to American readers in 1953.  These stories from one of the great literary voices of the twentieth century have been called “witty, urbane, and frequently affecting.”  In this class we will discuss two of the stories: “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” and “Down at the Dinghy.” The pdfs for each story are below.  Karen is a former high school English teacher who was not permitted to teach Salinger’s works to the impressionable teenagers in her classes back in the 1960s. BA, MA English, Carnegie Mellon University.