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Podcast: What a Creep
Episode: J.D. Salinger, Joyce Maynard & Messy Memoirs Plus, NON-Creep Toni Morrison
Description: What a CreepSeason 23, Episode 4J.D. SalingerIn 1972, a teenager named Joyce Maynard wrote a New York Times magazine piece titled “An 18-Year-Old Looks Back at Life.” The daughter of artistic, brilliant parents who had many issues and tended to treat her as an adult--she was precocious and a veteran of magazine writing by the time she graduated from high school. Written during her first year at Yale, one of her fan letters was from 53-year-old J.D. Salinger--one of the most famous “genius” reclusives living i...