Write About Now

Joyce Maynard on J.D. Salinger, Her New Novel, and Writing with ADHD


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Fifty years ago, The New York Times Magazine featured Joyce Maynard on its cover for an essay she wrote entitled "An 18-Year-Old Looks Back on Life." That story would catapult her to national prominence but also mark a traumatic beginning to a celebrated career as a prolific novelist and memoir writer. Unwittingly, Maynard became part of a MeToo scandal with iconic novelist J.D. Salinger long before male predatory behavior was in the news. She survived that affair to become an acclaimed, prolific author— penning 13 novels and 5 works of non-fiction, two of which were adapted for film. On the pod, she talks about her newest masterpiece, How the Light Gets In, getting canceled in the 90s, returning to Yale as a middle age mom to get a degree, reading and writing with ADHD, and the best writing advice she was ever given.

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