下面这部小说的作者据说是一位曾经和美国现任总统奥巴马共处一室的某个人，但是署名是anonymous(佚名)。《O：总统传奇》会不会引领21世纪新的小说创作潮流呢？。。。
为什么这么说呢？主要是因为小说几乎动用了时下最为流行的一些网络元素：twitter, facebook, blog，网友的跟贴、评论等等；同时还有网络时事报道，时事快评等。。。
这部小说上榜后不到两周时间，即有报道说，匿名作者已经被锁定。
图中的这位人物是Mark Salter。曾经是参议员约翰·麦凯恩（John McCain）助手。也曾经和麦凯恩一起写书。常使用匿名（anonymous）。这次O, A Presidential Novel大火。他才被好事者挖出。在记者追问下，Salter没有否认他创作了这部小说。
据英国《卫报》报道，最新公开的J·D·赛林格书信披露了作家的一些出乎人们意料的生活细节：赛林格并不是人们想象的那样的足不出户的隐居者。实际情况是，作家避开了公众的关注之后的私人生活其实和所有的普通人一样平凡但不乏味。除了在自家花园里栽花种菜之外，他喜欢时不常地乘坐汽车到尼亚加拉去看大瀑布；喜欢看电视连续剧《楼下楼上》（Upstairs, Downstairs）；喜欢倍儿大倍儿大的牛奶巧克力球；喜欢网球明星亨曼（没事就喜欢收集整理所有与亨曼相关的资料，是个典型的“亨曼粉”），等等，不一而足。。。
披露这些细节的书信是赛林格写个他的好友，英国人唐纳德·赫尔托格（Donald Hertog）的。上周，这些书信被公诸于世。这些书信由赫尔托格的女儿捐赠给了英国东英吉利亚大学，于赛林格去世周年纪念时首次展出。
《卫报》的这篇题为“JD Salinger a recluse? No, just your average Tim Henman fan”的报道的最后两段文字意味深长。我很喜欢，尤其是这一句“he turned himself into a “recluse” in order to be the opposite – a normal guy”：
Should we be surprised that Salinger liked Henman and Burger King? Much of the coverage has suggested that we should, as if such revelations overturn our pre-existing notions of what he was like. In truth, what they actually reveal is that our understanding of what being a “recluse” means is faulty. All that the world really knew was that, at some point in the 1960s, Salinger ceased to publish and cut off all engagement with the press. By the media’s definition, that made him a recluse.
But isn’t it more likely that he cut himself off so that he would be better able to keep up with friends and go on bus tours? In other words, he turned himself into a “recluse” in order to be the opposite – a normal guy. There are, it seems, recluses and “recluses” and we should be wary of confusing one with the other.