The Novelist and the Fighter Pilot

James Salter and the man from my church

Good morning! Today’s letter is a reflection partly on the writer James Salter, and also another man I came to know. I’ve been tinkering with this story, since my time at Yaddo late last year, where Salter’s work—along with a lot of others, including Plath, Roth, Foster-Wallace—cast long shadows under the pines. Have you read Salter? What did you think?…