Pete's Reading Series with Joyce Maynard and Heather Hartley November 4, 2010

Joyce Maynard has written in a broad range of forms: newspaper reporting and features, magazine writing, radio, fiction (for adults and young adults), play, and memoir. Her early writing for Seventeen Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and others led to the publication of her first book, Looking Back, an examination of growing up in the sixties. It also led to her correspondence and then relationship with J.D. Salinger, which she chronicled in her second memoir, At Home in the World. She has published one book of nonfiction and seven novels, including To Die For (made into a movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman), Labor Day, and her most recent, The Good Daughters.

Heather Hartley is author of Knock Knock and Paris Editor for Tin House magazine. Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in Post Road, The Los Angeles Review, Mississippi Review and elsewhere, and anthologies including The World Within: Writers Talk . . . and Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House. She lives in Paris, where she curates Shakespeare & Company Bookshop’s weekly reading series, and teaches cre ative writing and poetry at the American University of Paris.

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