BookClub: The Catcher in the Rye

BookClub is free to join and does not require registration!

Please join us for our first BookClub event of the season to celebrate the 75^th anniversary of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Host Megan Nolan will discuss this modern American classic with the author’s son, Matt Salinger. Stop by the Reading Room ahead of time to sign up and receive a free copy of the book donated by our publishing partners at Hachette Book Group while supplies last.  

Matt Salinger’s twenty-five-year acting career included starring roles on and off Broadway, in regional theater, in feature films, and on television.  More recently, he has produced theatre on both coasts, and internationally, and he has produced or executive produced nearly a dozen independent films, and one documentary. The project he’s proudest of is The Syringa Tree, a play which he discovered in an acting class in Los Angeles in 1996, then developed and nurtured for ten years (together with playwright and actress Pamela Gien and director Larry Moss), with productions across the country, across Canada, and around the world.  The Syringa Tree’s New York run lasted almost two years and won the 2001 Obie award for Best Play of the Year. Based largely on Tom Stoppard’s passionate recommendation, the Royal National Theatre brought the production to London, where it played to sold out houses.  Since his father J.D. Salinger’s death in 2010 Matt has dedicated his time to better protecting and administering his father’s intellectual property.

Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in New York. Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, was an international bestseller, the recipient of a Betty Trask Award, and nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second, Ordinary Human Failings, was nominated for the George Orwell prize for Political Fiction, the Nero Prize, and the Women’s Prize, among others. She is the 2025 Sewanee School of Letters John Grammer Fellow.