The Unofficial Joyce Maynard Webpage





Created by Anthony Risser, Ph.D. of divinestra.

A resource offering unofficial information about the writings of author Joyce Maynard, "The Usual Rules" novel, as well as related features and links.

Updated on 01 January 2003




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anthony risser

This website offers unofficial information about the writings of author Joyce Maynard, as well as related features and links.
Current News

Previous Frontpage Content: Up to May 2001

Page One: The Sotheby's Auction

Page Two: 1999 Publications

Page Three: "AHITW"and the 1998 Book Tour

Page Four: Additional Writings and Information

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Current News

"The Usual Rules": Joyce's new novel will be released in late January or early February 2003.

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- "Putting 9/11 to work" (The Kirkus Review, 01 January 2003):
Commentary by Thomas Leitch


- "The Usual Rules" Book Tour has a provisional itinerary posted on Joyce's website.
Per her site, the tour begins in February 2003 in New York City:

12th: Packer Collegiate Institute, 170 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn Heights

13th: KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street

20th: West Side Y, Broadway and 64th Street

25th: Barnes and Noble, Upper West Side.
Note: The Barnes and Noble website has the venue on the East Side at: 240 East 86th Street (at 2nd Avenue), 7:00 p.m.



- "Fiction from the rubble" (Rocky Mountain News, 08 November 2002):
An article by Patti Thorn on the upcoming novel.


- "Shine a light on monsters" (San Francisco Examiner, 07 July 2002):
An interview with Joyce by Nina Wu on a variety of topics, including "The Usual Rules" and her time in Guatamala.

About the book, she stated:

"I ended up staying [in New York] almost a month and walking the streets, taking in every face on every flier that I could, just looking and feeling. ... I read a little item about a child who had lost her mother. She was a child of divorce as my children are and had been raised by a stepfather. That was the genesis of the story."






"At Home in the World":

Information about this book can be found on the archival pages of this site.