the glass family stories, franny and zooey, and the carpenters, even down at the dingy if you want to>> those are -- >> stephen: those are some of his finest works, some of his greatest works. you will admit that or you will pay a price. >> well, if you like -- >> stephen: what do you have against the glass family? >> do you like to read sermons all day? >> stephen: i give them. [ cheers and applause ] >> there is a wonderful little moment in catcher in the rye when holden is talking about the preachers that come to talk in the chapel and -- at -- and he talks about this holy joe tone that they take on, and oddly enough that is the tone he took on when he was writing these glass family stories. >> stephen: buddy glass who writes all of the stories, it even implies he wrote catcher in the rye, everything. >> everything, right. >> stephen: okay. he says essentially i know that i am writing imperfect stories here and i will be get lost in my own lo constitutions and i use god in a way that is not a three letter expletive and actually think of him as sermonizing. he knows what he is doing