There’s also a terrific episode of the BBC podcast In Our Time where scholars of the poem discuss it and the context in which it was written. The whole premise of the show is to make academic study accessible to ordinary people and this episode stands out as particularly good to me. I highly recommend listening to it!

I remember the first time I read Franny and Zooey, which is one of my favourite books, and my dad told me “if you don’t fall in love with Zooey, that’s fine-- he’s kind of difficult. If you don’t fall in love with Franny, you don’t have a soul.”