Joyce Maynard: 'I wouldn't recommend being published when you're a teenager'

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Our guest is an acclaimed writer with a career spanning more than fifty years. In that time she's published hundreds of essays as well as twenty books, including the memoir "At Home in the World" – where she spoke of her relationship with "The Catcher in the Rye" author JD Salinger – and the novels "To Die For" and "Labor Day", both adapted for film. She's in Paris as her eleventh novel "The Bird Hotel”, centered at a hotel in a small Central American village, is being translated into French. Joyce Maynard speaks to Eve Jackson about the writing of her new novel during Covid at her home in Guatemala, being a published writer at 13 and baking cakes with Josh Brolin and Kate Winslet for the film adaptation of "Labor Day".