Neil Cohen's surprise discovery, in his barn in upstate New York, of cheerful and jokey J.D. Salinger letters spanning thirty years (postmarked from the publication of 'Catcher in the Rye' until the 1970's) formed the basis of Neil Cohen's much-lauded non-fiction Playboy article, "Love, Jerry," showing a lighter side of the purportedly reclusive author and his long-term friendship with a previously unknown muse.