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Salinger's estate wants to wait literal decades to publish the rest of his works. There was a bunch of controversy in 2013 when Three Stories leaked on what.cd. I'm not a Salinger expert by any means but having read and liked Catcher in the Rye and Three Early Stories, I didn't find Three Stories particularly exceptional. Maybe the estate is so sensitive because the unpublished stuff isn't as good as the published stuff?

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> Maybe the estate is so sensitive because the unpublished stuff isn't as good as the published stuff?

Or it could be the author's wish since the unpublished material may contain sensitive information. TS Eliot most famously had an embargo on publishing his letters 50 years after his death or the death of his 'mistress' depending on whoever died later.

Salinger's literary reputation is already set. Don't think any new material will add to or detract from it.

The craziest part of that saga was that what.cd later banned unreleased Salinger works from being uploaded. They are still banned from a number of private torrent sites. How is Salinger's estate so scary?

this is also tied to how banksters make money

it's about timing, letting the culture soak up the ideas, then release at the time of biggest likelihood of great profit...

consider why has disney+ removed so much content? so they can time it, to sell it at a higher value in the future, once the nostalgia has set in....?

that or they're just too stupid to understand how culture works and are destroying their own value? both of these completely unlikely. but I'm just ranting/guessing online....

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