Lillian Ross, J.D. Salinger, Salman Rushdie, Robin Williams

🫧 Open on Bubbles Lillian Ross, in the introduction to her book Reporting Always , on J.D. Salinger: He liked what Ralph Waldo Emerson said. He quoted Emerson in a letter to me: “A man must have aunts and cousins, must buy carrots and turnips, must have barn and woodshed, must go to market and to the blacksmith’s shop, must saunter and sleep and be inferior and silly.” Writers, Salinger said, sometimes had trouble abiding by that, and he referred to Flaubert and Kafka as “two other born non-buyers of carrot