Saturday, June 20, 2015. I read in the Times that the writer James Salter has died at age 90. He was a month younger than I, and a schoolmate in my senior year at the Horace Mann School (in the Bronx, according to the Times, though we thought of it as Riverdale). We were friendly, if not quite friends.But then, how was one to be friends with Jim? All through the years I tried, but he remained mostly aloof. On the oth…
SOURCE: John Simon at 10:21AM on June 22, 2015