Purple Magazine
— S/S 2013 issue 19

Richard Prince

the catcher in the rye photography by RICHARD PRINCE at Fulton Ryder text by JEFF RIAN   What a great way to brighten a day! The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society, a small group of bare-chested naturalists, came to look around Richard Prince’s invitation-only art gallery-cum-bookstore, Fulton Ryder. He showed them some art and some books. The latter included a signed first edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 noir fiction The Big Sleep and Prince’s republication of J.D. Salinger’s cult-novel The Catcher in the Rye. Only this edition has Richard Prince as its nom de plume, replacing the author’s own. First published in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye introduced us to the antihero Holden Caulfield, who changed many young men’s lives. In a first-person narrative, said to be based on the author’s own experiences, Caulfield returns home to New York City after being thrown out of his fourth…

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