Joyce Maynard
"I Didn't Want to Admit I was Sick," Says Eating Disorders Anthologizer Kate Taylor
On Tuesday, Sept. 16, a crowd of writers and well wishers gathered to celebrate the release of Going Hungry, a collection of 19 personal essays on the process of overcoming eating disorders. The book, edited by 28-year-old Kate Taylor, includes pieces by the poet Louise Gluck, acclaimed young adult novelist Francesca Lia Block, Francine du Plessix Gray, Jennifer Egan, and Joyce Maynard, along with work by a diverse group of emerging writers.
Ms. Taylor, who currently writes about culture for the New York Sun, began work on the project six years ago, having just graduated from Harvard (she took time off during her junior year to seek treatment for anorexia). read more »
The New York Times Magazine: Where The Writer Comes First
"Every generation thinks it's special—my grandparents because they remember horses and buggies, my parents because of the Depression. The over-30's are special because they knew the Red Scare of Korea, Chuck Berry and beatniks. My older sister is special because she belonged to the first generation of teen-agers (before that, people in their teens were "adolescents"), when being a teen-ager was still fun.... My generation is special because of what we missed rather than what we got, because in a certain sense we are the first and the last. The first to take technology for granted."–Joyce Maynard, An 18-Year-Old Looks Back On Life, The New York Times Magazine, April 23, 1972.
