Joyce Maynard has been writing for over 45 years about the kind of human experiences we're often taught to keep hidden - stories about envy, anger, vanity, self-pity, pride.

We read her stories because they offer a chance to first confront and then forgive ourselves for how those emotions can shape us into people we don't like.

Her honesty has come at a cost to her.

She has been criticized for writing about her relationship as an 18-year-old with a famous 53-year-old writer after 26 years of silence. She was told she should have kept quiet. She did this 20 years before #MeToo.

Today, we have a wide-ranging discussion with Joyce Maynard about politics, #MeToo, art, music and her marriage at 59-years-old to a love who died from cancer 3 short years later.

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