Includes bibliographical references (pages [609]-683).

Brahmacharya = Apprenticeship. We're going to start the war from right here ; Slight rebellion off Park Avenue ; Conversation with Salinger #1 ; Six-feet-two of muscle and typewriter ribbon in a foxhole ; Conversation with Salinger #2 ; Inverted forest ; Conversation with Salinger #3 ; Dead men in winter ; Still burning ; Victim and perpetrator ; Measuring up ; Conversation with Salinger #4 ; The origin of Esmé ; Is the kid in this book crazy? ; We can still run away ; Conversation with Salinger #5 ; Follow the bullet : Nine stories ; Conversation with Salinger #6 -- Garhasthya = Householder duties. His long dark night ; A terrible, terrible fall ; Conversation with Salinger #7 ; Conversation with Salinger #8 -- Vanaprasthya = Withdrawal from society. Seymour's second suicide ; Conversation with Salinger #9 ; Dear Miss Maynard ; Dear Mr. Salinger ; Conversation with Salinger #10 ; Conversation with Salinger #11 ; Conversation with Salinger #12 ; Assassins -- Sannyasa = Renunciation of the world. A private citizen ; A million miles away in his tower ; Jerome David Salinger : a conclusion ; Secrets -- Fiction in chronological order of publication -- Lost stories, uncollected stories, and published letters -- The Glass family.