Who's up for a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye? Well, certainly John David California, the 32-year-old "former gravedigger and Ironman triathlete" who is also the writer of 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, an unauthorized follow-up to the classic novel which everyone thinks is completely deep when they're fifteen but hopefully grows out of very soon after. Anyway, the new one features an aged Holden Caulfied escaping his nursing home and wandering around the city. California talks to the Guardian.

Just like the first novel, he leaves, but this time he's not at a prep school, he's at a retirement home in upstate New York. It's pretty much like the first book in that he roams around the city, inside himself and his past. He's still Holden Caulfield, and has a particular view on things. He can be tired, and he's disappointed in the goddamn world. He's older and wiser in a sense, but in another sense he doesn't have all the answers.

Also, he appears to say "goddamn" about three times a page, which does suggest some similarity to J.D. Salinger's original. Up next for California: trying to get a blowjob from Joyce Maynard.