The Heart of a Broken Story
From Bananafish
| The Heart of a Broken Story | |
|---|---|
| Status | Underpublished |
| Original publication source | Esquire |
| Original publication date | 1941 |
| Salinger.org rating | 3.0 |
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This one's a lot of fun. It's a first-person account of what the author thinks is wrong with writing fiction, but it's neither grumpy nor sarcastic. It's sincere.
- That was the beginning of the story I started to write for Collier's. I was going to write a lovely tender boy-meets-girl story. What could be finer, I thought. The world needs boy-meets-girl stories. But to write one, unfortunately, the writer must go about the business of having the boy meet the girl. I couldn't do it with this one. Not and have it make sense.
Sources
- (September 1941) The Heart of a Broken Story. Esquire XVI: 32, 131-133.
