Hey phonies! Want a piece of literary history? Well here you go. A toilet from J.D. Salinger's home, that the reclusive author probably pooped in!, is being auctioned off on eBay for $1M. Next up, one hopes: Sylvia Plath's bidet.

The NYT CityRoom blog found a woman who supposedly went on a blind date with J.D. Salinger. She said he was "smashing looking" and that there was a "mystery" about him. Naturally, there was no second date. What a bro.

describing a 1951 dinner party with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in a private letter to E. Michael Mitchell, according to the New York Times. The correspondence has been unsealed by the Morgan Library following the novelist's death.

Greek shipping heir and bizarre social critic Taki Theodoracopulos claims to have a big secret stash of vibrant correspondence from J.D. Salinger. Taki gives the following thumbnail account of Salinger's myriad hated enemies:

After yesterday's nicknames post, I received several indignant emails about leaving out perhaps the most elite nicknamed person of all time: J.D. Salinger, who—as readers of tributes to him know—was called "Jerry" by friends. But there are more.

Predictably, Dave Eggers wrote a remembrance of J.D. Salinger for The New Yorker. And here I could riff on this, but I'd rather just copy-paste this comment from their website...

Since no Catcher in the Rye movie was ever created, legions of fans have interpreted the book in homemade movies on YouTube. And Slate has put them all together in a brilliant, cohesive, and unphony manner.

Here's an appropriately lo-res image of J.D. Salinger's home and barn in Cornish, N.H., via Google Maps.

We've rounded up the best J.D. Salinger tributes, stories, and interactive maps. Did you know that a letter from Salinger to a film producer who wanted the rights to Catcher in the Rye can be yours for $54,000?

Neil Patrick Harris is hosting a three-dimensional game show. Conan O'Brien saves the best for last. "Drunk History" gets an award, and there is a show called Emergency Sex about humanitarian workers boinking it. The Roundup will take you there!

People can't help themselves from twittering about celebrity deaths. But when a literary figure dies, it tends to inspire a particular brand of not-totally-selfless grief. Or they just get totally bizarre.

Reclusive author J. D. Salinger has died. He was 91. Salinger, creator of Holden Caulfield and the Glass family, was an unofficial spokesman for every alienated or precocious teenager in the English-speaking world.

JD Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, is dead at 91. He follows author/historian Howard Zinn, who died yesterday, and author Louis Auchincloss, who died on Tuesday. [NYT]

Diane von Furstenberg's spent the past week on the slopes in Aspen; today she'll celebrate her 63rd birthday. Other people turning a year older on New Year's Eve: Val Kilmer is turning 50. Bebe Neuwirth is 51. Anthony Hopkins turns 73. Ben Kingsley is turning 66. Donald Trump Jr. is 32. Famed attorney Joe Flom is 86. Real estate developer Ed Minskoff is 69. Author Nicholas Sparks turns 44. Donna Summers is 61. Gong Li is turning 44. And New Kids on the Block alum Joey McIntyre is 37 as of today. A bunch of people celebrating tomorrow below.

J.D. Salinger invented blogs, according to a federal judge who granted a temporary injunction yesterday against John David California's planned "parody" of Catcher in the Rye.

Hermetically-sealed Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger sued to prevent some Swedish writer from publishing an updated spinoff version of his book. And Salinger's won, for the moment! What a crock.

• Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show debuted last night. The reviews were mixed, although he did very well in the ratings, not surprisingly. [Variety, THR]
• Playboy Enterprises named Scott Flanders as its CEO yesterday. [NYP]
• Lawyers for author J.D. Salinger have filed suit against an author who is publishing a book billed as a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. [NYT]
• Five magazines—Popular Photography, Flying, Boating, Sound & Vision and American Photo—have been sold to Bonnier Corp. by Hachette. [Crain's]
• Paris Hilton and producer Michael Hirschorn have teamed up to bring a version of Paris Hilton's My New BFF to Dubai. Yes, Dubai. No joke. [Variety]

J.D. Salinger, now 90 years old and still living in seclusion in New Hampshire, is suing the author and publisher of a "sequel" to Catcher in the Rye, seeking to prevent its publication later this year.

The world needs a Catcher in the Rye sequel like it needs an asshole on its elbow. Well, since New Jersey exists, so too must the book. Some debut novelist has published an unauthorized sequel.

The days of producer and rookie Oscar ringleader Laurence Mark not getting his way are largely over, except for one unresolved bit of correspondence from nearly 30 years ago.