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Mar 2021
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The Catcher in the Rye

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J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been held as a seminal book of required reading in America. But after multiple acts of violence were linked back to it, people wondered if the text could incite people to do malicious things… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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