Salinger would be looked at very differently in the #MeToo era.“There’s a lot about the #MeToo movement I welcome and celebrate, but of course, it’s not retroactive.” The criticism, she suggests, will always be there:“I’m locked into the Google universe as the person who slept with Salinger.whose chief function as a writer was to convey marginal information about the truly important person.” “You’re right,” Joyce Maynard says, as I suggest that maybe her origin story with J. At the time, Maureen Dowd calls you the “Leech Woman of the boomer generation.” The purchaser, a diehard fan, announces publicly his intention to return the letters to their author, J. You sell the letters written to you from the great man at auction to pay for your kids’ college educations. After your memoir At Home in the World comes out in 1998, you appear at a writers’ conference, and an entire fleet of prominent authors walks out. Or wait, no, maybe that’s not how it happened. And naturally, the famous writer faces the wrath and condemnation of an outraged public who sees his creepiness and rapaciousness for what it is. Many years later, you write about all of this. You can’t have an intimate relationship with anyone for a very long time afterward, because you carry the deep and abiding secret of a nonfunctioning vagina. The treatment doesn’t do the trick, and so, after nine months, you’re kicked out.

Posing as a “concerned friend,” he takes you to a homeopathic doctor to cure you of the vaginismus you suffer while you’re with him, making intercourse painful or impossible.

The famous writer has you eating undercooked meat and teaches you how to throw up, since he seems to prefer that pre-adolescent body. Your favorite prep-school teacher drives you there. So you drop your scholarship at Yale your mother sews you an alphabet-print A-line dress that makes you look like you’re 12 and you present your skinny self (your mother is very proud of that, too) at the home of the great man.

You are her finest creation, and the Great Man wants you. Your mother, herself a brilliant but thwarted writer, would not be pleased if this were some schmo. You correspond he invites you to live with him, as one does. So you’re an 18-year-old girl who, based on one photo and article, has been anointed the Voice of Your Generation you attract the attention of a world-famous 53-year-old literary sensation. Joyce Maynard outside her home in Guatemala.

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