A Disingenuous Swede

In the New York Times, Sewell Chan reports that J. D. Salinger has prevailed in his court battle against a pseudonymous hack who ripped off his work.

In a victory for the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger, a federal judge on Wednesday indefinitely banned publication in the United States of a new book by a Swedish author that contains a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of “The Catcher in the Rye.”