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@joycemaynard

Author of At Home in the World, The Best of Us, Labor Day, After Her, To Die For among others, and founder of The Lake Atitlan writing Workshop

New Haven, CT
Joined April 2009

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  1. Jan 4

    Start the new year with renewed commitment to your writing?

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    : Memorize poetry & short prose hunks. This makes language eucharistic: you eat it. You take somebody else’s passion & suffering into your body, and it transforms you. Every bank line lets you rifle your beauty file. It rewires yr head & keeps you in company w/ gods.

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  3. Got up@in the wrong side of the bed? (Is there a right one?)

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  4. My son Will just spent a week in Texas, getting out the vote for Beto O'Rourke. He's going BACK this weekend to do it again. Now's the time, friends. We have a chance to say No to the current regime of deceitful ,compassionless politics. Voting is not enough. Lend a hand

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  6. If you want to know what once inspired me to jump into the pit where the trains come in, with my three astonished children watching, you might want to listen to this one. (I was NOT suicidal by the way. Just being my kind of mother. The wacky variety.)

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  7. And maybe next...a GOP mailer featuring a black candidate eating watermelon?

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  8. You better believe I'm proud of my younger son, , for getting out the vote in Texas for . And congratulations to you, Mary , for exercising your precious an hard-won right to vote. How about the rest of you?

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  10. .New York Friends: Tomorrow night I'll be speaking in Manhattan at an event sponsored by the Women's National Book Association for National Reading Group Month.

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    11 Oct 2018

    A Staff Selection by Aaron! The Good Daughters by "I’ve never been disappointed by a Maynard book; how many authors can you say that about?"

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    Writer was called a Jezebel - and much worse -after she penned a memoir that included an account of her time with the novelist J.D. Salinger. Two decades on, she's looking back at the backlash through the lens of on.

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  14. If you have a friend in any of these states, make sure she, he or they are registered to vote. Deadline today. Arkansas Arizona Florida Georgia Hawaii Indiana Kentucky Michigan New Mexico Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas

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  15. My son, Wilson. I like my villains on TV and in the comics, where they belong, and not in Washington.

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  16. Brett Kavanaugh , having a tantrum, is "compelling" and "deeply moving". Serena Williams.....forfeits points and loses the match.

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  17. Senator Susan Collins tweeted this, Nov 16, 2017, concerning Sen. Al Franken. "Sexual harassment and assault have no place in any workplace. The reports involving Senator Franken are disturbing. His belated apology was certainly warranted." No hearing. No due process.

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    5 Oct 2018
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  19. 1. Listened to Susan Collins reasons for betraying women in favor of Republican agenda. 2. Donated $20.20 to fund that will defeat her next election bid. 3. Drove 3 hours to my home state N.H. 4. Registered to vote there. 5. Dove in very cold lake. WE ARE NOT DONE.

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    While Crowdpac is down (from overwhelming traffic), you can donate here to ’ 2020 opponent.

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