I Should Have Danced With Her

When I was halfway through writing school, the program promised us a famous visitor:The journalist, memoirist, and novelist Joyce Maynard.Unfairly, everyone said one thing about her (as if that’s all there was to say):“She used to be J.D. Salinger’s girlfriend!”“Who’s that?” I said.I loved writing more than I loved reading back then.“J.D. SALINGER!” shouted the person I was talking to. We’ll call him “Julian,” what else?Julian screamed, “The Catcher in the Rye guy!”“Baseball?”