Book News: New Salinger Books, Tracking Pynchon: The New Yorker According to the upcoming J. D. Salinger documentary and related biography, at least five more books by Salinger may be put out by his estate. He doesn't just challenge his fans; he pranks them, dares them to find out what he's really about (or maybe just to stop exalting Important Writers in the first place). Boris Kachka pieces together a detailed profile of Thomas Pynchon. For Harper's, William T. Vollmann writes an article (paywall protected) about the time the F.B.I. suspected him of being the Unabomber. Granta's managing editor Yuka Igarashi interviews Tao Lin about his treatment of drugs, technology, setting, and metaphor in his latest novel, "Taipei." Mark Slouka explains why you should never ask a writer what she's working on.