 In 1996 , Salinger gave a small publisher , <unk> Press , permission to publish " Hapworth 16 , 1924 " , the previously uncollected novella . It was to be published that year , and listings for it appeared at Amazon.com and other book @-@ sellers . After a flurry of articles and critical reviews of the story appeared in the press , the publication date was pushed back repeatedly before apparently being cancelled altogether . Amazon anticipated that <unk> would publish the story in January 2009 , but at the time of his death it was still listed as " currently unavailable " . 
