There are two kinds of reactions I’ve gotten when I tell people I’m reading “The Catcher in the Rye.” The first is a total non-reaction, where they have no idea what I’m talking about — evidently ...

The Catcher in the Rye would be banned many times in the future. Often, a parent would complain about the profanity or the sex. The underlying argument, however, was not really about the bad words.

JD Salinger is going to court to stop the publication of a book billed as the sequel to his famous novel The Catcher in the Rye.