J.D. Salinger, Joyce Maynard & Messy Memoirs Plus, NON-Creep Toni Morrison
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Season 23, Episode 4
J.D. Salinger
In 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 in New Hampshire. The two had a correspondence, which led to a relationship where she moved in with him and gradually shrunk herself away from the world. Until he carelessly dumped her.
Turns out she is NOT the only young person who falls under his romantic spell. Also, she has some other messiness going on in her life. There is SO much to discuss here!
Trigger Warning: Grooming, eating disorders
Sources for this episode:
· Joyce Maynard Wiki· NY Times June 1972 “A 18-year-old Looks Back on Life”· Joyce Maynard in Vanity Fair· Joyce Maynard Vanity Fair (1998)· Joyce Maynard in the New Yorker (2019)· New York magazine 1998 “JD Salinger’s Women”· Ranker· KQED· JD Salinger's Documentary “American Masters.”· Glamourous Trash podcast with Chelsea Devantez
- Joyce Maynard At Home in the World (1998)
- Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us (2018)
- The Guardian (2000)
- New York Times review of Margaret Salinger’s Dream Catcher
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep. The show with Margotaniu and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.0 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.8 | This is your quick guide to the biggest Creeps, jerks, ass, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:15.0 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a Creep, this is Margot Donahue and my cohort in Creep as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:34.3 | Hey Sonia! |
| 0:35.3 | Hello my friend! |
| 0:36.6 | Did I say co-hoort? |
| 0:38.6 | Sorry about that y'all? |
| 0:39.9 | Your cat hort? |
| 0:41.4 | My cat hort. We were talking cats just before this. |
| 0:45.0 | We are. |
| 0:46.0 | You're hopeless. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't even have a cat and I'm a crazy cat lady. |
| 0:51.0 | So. |
| 0:52.0 | Do with that what you will. But we know the show that doesn't talk |
| 0:56.3 | about cats that much. We talk about creeps from the past to the present. We have a |
| 1:02.2 | literary creep today. a lot of people have been |
| 1:05.7 | reaching out to us for this for a while. Finally was in a space that I could take |
| 1:10.6 | this in. I'm super psyched to talk about it. But just if this is your first time just to let you know, we always end the show with someone who's not a creep, either they're in the same field as that person. Sometimes it's somebody just from the same city that they were born in |
| 1:24.0 | because we have a hard time finding a non-crete but we find them. Yeah we look for a |
| 1:27.6 | connection but I I found someone in the realm. I got you did your job I got someone I got you I got you but we're always |
| 1:37.3 | looking for suggestions for creeps and for non creeps so just giving you the social |
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