Centenary of James Salter: the Aviator Who Landed in the Human Heart

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It has seemed to me that a good way to celebrate James Salter's centenary, which is celebrated on June 10, was to read to me Not to keep anything, the miscellany of texts of the writer who gathered and published in 2017 his widow Kay Eldredge Salter and who edited this March Salamandra. Salter (Passaic, New Jersey, 1925), died in 2015 at age 90 and his wife found that although he advised not to keep anything, he kept everything and, after his de…