Joyce Maynard

And also Sollinger explicitly said that to do this via voiceover would be incredibly corny and you would lose a lot of of how it works and i i agree with him

there is on the wiki there's a long list of people that tried to adapt that reached out to adapt that were told no that like started things were like cease and desist people who just did it anyway and like no legal action was taken or whatever um The only thing of note that I want to call out to this, if you want to go into more depth, because that's not what we're doing here, but Joyce Maynard, who's an essayist, said, quote, the only person who might have ever played Holden Caulfield would have been J.D. Salinger.

Well, he had the thing

where he wanted to play Holden.

... side street real quick.

It's called The Influencer by Joyce Maynard.

Um, I did it on Audible-

Mm-hmm

But it is what happened, you know, with, uh, this story, Marie Calloway as well.

She was viciously judged and, you know, it's interesting because she cites a major influence on that, not only the story, but the, the book, uh, What Purpose Did I Serve in Your Life?, was Joyce Maynard.

Oh, really?

And Joyce Maynard famously, she was an 18-year-old freshman at Yale on a scholarship, and she wrote an essay in The New York Times, [lips smack] "An 18-Year-Old Looks Back On Your Life" or something like that, and then J.D. Salinger reached out to her.

She dropped out of Yale.

She went to live with him for-

... without any claim to anything better.

It's just, it's like the mouth and, and you know, and, um-

[instrumental music] Hey, Johnny Dumas here, and welcome back to The Daily Refresh, where I share a quote, gratitude, and guided breathing in under three minutes.

And today's quote is from Joyce Maynard, "A good home must be made, not bought." Fire Nation, we can all slap down a down payment or whatever that might be, but you have to make your home.

You have to love your home.

You have to create the home that you want, the home of your dreams, period.

Mm-hmm.

Now, to support these three takeaways, I chose a quote by Joyce Maynard, and Joyce says, "To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it." So who is my amazing guest today that we're gonna dig into telling our story? Yes, Antonio is raising his hand if you're watching on YouTube.

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Antonio Michael Downing is an author, musician, and host of CBC Radio's The Next Chapter.

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