Sad to say, you still can’t get any of J.D. Salinger’s fiction on Kindle, but Salinger fans do have a multimedia feast to look forward to early next year, according to Deadline New York, which reported yesterday that US TV rights to the Shane Salerno-directed documentary biopic “Salinger have been licensed to Thirteen/WNET to be the 200th episode of the PBS series American Masters” set for January 2014 and to be preceded by a theatrical release in September.
Equally tantalizing, Deadline reports that “The Private War of J.D. Salinger — an 800-page biography written by bestselling author David Shields and Salerno and informed by the eight years of research for the documentary — will be auctioned to publishers later this week.” Maybe that book will be available on Kindle, like Kenneth Slawinski’s mere 464-page, and better-than-I-expected J.D. Salinger: A Life.