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Joyce Wadler

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Joyce Wadler is a former New York Times staff reporter, who wrote the award winning ‘I Was Misinformed’ humor column for several years and today writes a humor column on Substack. https://joycewadler.substack.com/

Joyce was also the New York correspondent for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for New York Magazine and Rolling Stone.

Her best-selling memoir about breast cancer, ‘My Breast’, has been translated into several languages and was adapted by Ms. Wadler as a CBS television movie. Gloria Steinem called the book, “An irresistible and intimate story of defeating cancer with humor and self-respect.”

"Cured, My Ovarian Cancer Story", originally published as a cover story in New York Magazine, tells the story of Ms. Wadler ...more

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	Liaison: the Gripping Real Story of the Diplomat Spy and the Chinese Opera Star 3.59 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Breast 3.65 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1992 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cured, My Ovarian Cancer Story 3.94 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Satyr in Bungalow D 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary in the Lavender Pumps: A True Story about Love, Murder and Gender Identity (The Stacks Reader Series) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Audition

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“Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all my deadlines. It will come whenever it damn well pleases; all I can control is the time between. So when I see something I want, I grab it. If the tulips are particularly yellow, I buy them. ”
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“All I can control—for whatever fight I put up should a cancer make a comeback—is the time between.”
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