Very sad news. J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye", has died. Here’s Holden Caulfield:

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.

I never knew how much Holden Caulfield and the Glass family meant to me until I read about Salinger’s death this morning. I actually started to cry. Well, I know, boo hoo, who cares. But I read Catcher when I was near Holden’s age and it really hit me hard.

RIP creator of one of my dearest friends.