The death of author J.D. Salinger at age 91 brings to mind an event several years ago at New Haven's International Festival of Arts & Ideas that featuied the popular The Moth.
The Moth features story tellers, some famous and some not, who tell true short stories from their lives, without notes.
One of the featured stiry tellers was Joyce Maynard, a writer who also became famous when she was younger for the short-lived relationship she had with Salinger.
"I''m sure she shudders at every time someone mentions Salinger to her," I remember telling my partner. After all, she was so young at the time and of course she would want to distance herself from something that happened during the Nixon administration. She was a writer in her own right, after all -- although I couldn't recall anything she had written.
Well, it took about four seconds before she talked about Salinger. And talk. And talk.
Somehow I have the feeling we'll be hearing a lot more from here now.
source : http://blogs.courant.com/curtain/2010/01/joyce-maynard-start-your-engin-1.html
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