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I may not know you yet, but if you’re reading this I’ll call you a friend.
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Why I help women tell their stories
(as I'm doing at this very moment, on the shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala). And what goes on here, and why it matters.)
Mar 1
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Live with Joyce Maynard
A recording from Joyce Maynard's live video
Feb 24
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From the archive: My mother's chutney
A story about holding on to one's mother. And recognizing the need to let her go.
Feb 15
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An unusual vacation...spent mostly in my hotel room....but for a good reason
I've been finishing a novel.
Feb 13
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It's Judy Blume's birthday
But she's the one who has given us the most important gift.
Feb 13
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The meaning of "America"
...and a few words of appreciation concerning the Super Bowl Half-time show our president called "terrible"
Feb 9
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"I wish you wouldn't put politics in your novels," a reader tells me....
And here's why I do. Because, as the quote from Ai Wei Wei printed on my late husband Jim's t-shirt reminds us , "Everything is art. And everything is…
Feb 7
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Four weeks, sixty years ago, that changed the course of my life...
When my mother decided to bring three young girls on a train through Mexico on $5 a day. And we didn't go to Acapulco.
Feb 5
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A recording from Joyce Maynard's live video
Feb 3
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Hanging with Amy Poehler. My new best friend...
Or not.
Feb 2
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Live with Joyce Maynard
A recording from Joyce Maynard's live video
Jan 30
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When writing a novel requires a lake and a volcano and a whole lot of birds
I want to tell you what I'm doing now in Guatemala, and how I got here, and why I've barely left this little cabin I'm sitting in now for eight days…
Jan 27
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From the Archive: I invited a man I barely knew to join me on a romantic trip to Italy....
It went about as well as you'd expect. Then I met a woman who offered me good advice about love, got to see Sting perform in Venice without buying a…
Jan 23
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@ Home in the World
Stories, observations, and obsessions from me, New York Times-bestselling author and pie baker, Joyce Maynard
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