A Perfect Day for Bananafish (J.D. Salinger) The New Yorker, January 31, 1948 P. 21 There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She used the time, though. She read an article in a women’s pocket-size magazine, called “Sex Is Fun – or Hell.” She washed her comb and brush. She took […]

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