For Esmé, With Love and Squalor

I thought I would use this post to pay homage to my favorite author, JD Salinger, who died this week at 91. I first read The Catcher in the Rye in eighth grade, and have since read all of Salinger's books/short stories several times. Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories are still two of my all-time favorite books.

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It sounds strange, but I think JD Salinger actually did a lot to influence my personal style. Descriptions of Holden Caulfield's hound's tooth coat and leather gloves, Franny Glass's classic looks, and Esmé's antique tank watch always made me oddly nostalgic for the old, 1920s Manhattan that I wasn't even alive to experience.

Maggie did well to cheer me up, though. She put one of her toys in my shoe today, which I thought she was giving me as a present. I was flattered until she dragged the shoe across the room to her bed, taking it for herself. I guess my little lady has a shoe fetish :)