The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 5: The Brother He Couldn't Save | Banned Books Comedy

Banned Camp: Banned Books, Comedy, and Free Speech vs. Censorship · Feb 10, 2026 · 28m

The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 5 | Banned Books Comedy Podcast

Holden writes a homework assignment about the one thing that matters most to him—his dead brother Allie's baseball mitt, covered in poems written in green ink. We learn that when Allie died of leukemia at eleven, Holden broke every window in the garage with his bare hands, and his hand still doesn't work right. Dan and Jennifer discuss grief, terrible institutional food, and why Holden invites the most annoying guy he knows on a Saturday night trip to town.

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