Book Review: Joyce Maynard’s Brush With J.D. Salinger

Memoir writing is about getting tightly wound up with oneself, burning through that self—a self-conflagration—searing off the epidermis of personae, only to allow new skin grafts.

Camille Cusumano

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Camille Cusumano

Author(ity) in/on San Francisco. Novel, essay, memoir. Teaches tango. Travel, outdoors, culture. Former editor at VIA Mag.