salinger we know today. >> the bananafish. 47 or 8. >> rose: he is then great. >> yes. the new yorker was so blown away by the story which again they initially rejected which is interesting. he changed it and then they accepted it. but he would then add two other stories published that year and was given a first option contract and that's when he became a new yorker writer, that's when he became j.d. salinger to the world. what's interesting is there were still stories they passed on after that and of course quite famously the new yorker rejected the catcher in the rye, which is a story we tell in the film which is sort of an unbelievable story that they not only rejected it but they didn't believe it. >> rose: but new york is a city that celebrates authors, celebrates talent, celebrates creativity. he had all of that. >> all of that. >> rose: and he was celebrated. >> completely. >> rose: why did he say this is not for me. >> what's interesting is how aggressively he pursued his fame, how aggressively he pursued notoriety. you read these early letters. he's actually re