1st Harper Perennial edition published 2009 Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
The invisible man: a biographical collage The good American / Arthur Mizener, David L. Stevenson Is "cute" the word? / Alfred Kazin, John Updike, Leslie Fiedler Magician, clubman or guru / Seymour Krim, David Leitch, Joan Didion, Isa Kapp, George Steiner A slight case of incest / Maxwell Geismar, Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner The cures for banana fever / William Wiegand Sensitive outsider vs. vulgarian / Ihab Hassan Between miracle and suicide / Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Barr, Dan Wakefield, Granville Hicks Holden and Huck: a quest / Arthur Heiserman, James E. Miller, Jr., Edgar Branch Against the cult of the child / Leslie Fiedler The phoenix / Martin Green, Christopher Parker Postscripts: Appendix A: The early stories / Gwynn and Blotner Appendix B: The language of the catcher in the rye / Donald P. Costello