What really knocked readers out about “The Catcher in the Rye” was the wonderfully immediate voice that J. D. Salinger fashioned for Holden Caulfield ”” a voice that enabled him to channel an alienated 16-year-old’s thoughts and anxieties and frustrations, … Continue reading Michiko Kakutani on J.D. Salinger: Of Teen Angst and an Author’s Alienation