The Young Folks

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"The Young Folks" was J. D. Salinger's first published story, published in Whit Burnett's Story.

The story satirizes the selfish concerns of a pair of young adults at a party and the festering shallowness of their lives. Burnett was the teacher of short story writing at Columbia where Salinger took his course. Salinger himself was 21 at the time of its publication.

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v • d • e Works by J. D. Salinger

Novels:	The Catcher in the Rye (1951) • Franny and Zooey (1961)

Short story collections:	Nine Stories (1953) • Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

Short stories:	"Blue Melody" • "Both Parties Concerned" • "A Boy in France" • "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" • "Down at the Dinghy" • "For Esmé with Love and Squalor" • "Go See Eddie" • "The Hang of It" • "Hapworth 16, 1924" • "The Heart of a Broken Story" • "I'm Crazy" • "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" • "Last Day of the Last Furlough" • "The Laughing Man" • "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" • "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" • "Once a Week Won't Kill You" • "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" • "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" • "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" • "Slight Rebellion off Madison" • "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" • "Teddy" • "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" • "The Varioni Brothers" • "The Young Folks"