i knew the deal went south

and i sort of knew why. i just didn't know any of the details outlined in this story. even though mr lathbury gave this interview, i don't think he breached any confidences he shared with mr salinger.

Publisher Roger Lathbury recalls book deal with J.D. Salinger that went sour

By Ian Shapira

Washington Post Staff Writer

In 1988, Roger Lathbury, an English professor at George Mason University and owner of a small literary publishing outfit based in his house in Alexandria, decided on a lark to write to J.D. Salinger, asking if he could publish "Hapworth 16, 1924," Salinger's last published work, which appeared as a story in the New Yorker in 1965 and never made it into book form.

Amazingly, Salinger wrote back promptly, saying, essentially, "I'll think about it."

Then, nothing. For eight years.

Until July 26, 1996, when Lathbury, just having completed teaching his morning classes, picked up the phone in his home office...........

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