mad men

Another thing he may have gotten from Salinger was a pretty high bar for narrative. He remembers seeing Star Wars a few years later, when it first came out, in 1977: “Oh my God, my friends were nuts. We saw it twice the first day, and I was like, ‘Why are we seeing this again?’ And they were like, ‘Who’s your favorite character?’ And I was like, ‘There’s no characters in this movie.’” He was 12.