The Hang of It

"The Hang of It" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, first published in the July 12, 1941 issue of Collier's magazine.[1] It is a commercial tale of a soldier who just can't seem to get "The Hang of It". It was reprinted in the 1942 and 1943 editions of the Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines by Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc.

The Hang of It

Author	J. D. Salinger
Publisher	Collier's magazine
Publication date	July 12, 1941 (1941-07-12)
Media type	Short story

References

"Uncollected Stories". Dead Caulfields website. 2008. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2008-12-24.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)

J. D. Salinger
Novel	The Catcher in the Rye
Short story collections	Nine Stories Franny and Zooey Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction Three Early Stories
Short stories	"Blue Melody" "Both Parties Concerned" "A Boy in France" "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period" "Down at the Dinghy" "Elaine" "For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" "A Girl I Knew" "Go See Eddie" "The Hang of It" "Hapworth 16, 1924" "The Heart of a Broken Story" "I'm Crazy" "The Inverted Forest" "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" "Last Day of the Last Furlough" "The Laughing Man" "The Long Debut of Lois Taggett" "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" "Once a Week Won't Kill You" "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "Personal Notes of an Infantryman" "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" "Slight Rebellion off Madison" "Soft-Boiled Sergeant" "The Stranger" "Teddy" "This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise" "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" "The Varioni Brothers" "The Young Folks" "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All" "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans"
Related	Holden Caulfield My Foolish Heart (1949) Pari (1995) Salinger (2013) (companion biography) Rebel in the Rye (2017)
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