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.

King Dork author Frank Portman decided to remind everyone how much his book reminds people of Catcher in the Rye.
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One Story contributor Elliott Holt knows how to read Salinger in Russian.
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Wall Street Journal reporter Katie Rosman went to Yaddo.
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Novelist Mat Johnson interviewed Margaret Salinger and left tantalizing hints of FILE CABINETS FULL OF UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS.

And Bret Easton Ellis was just... weird.

