Chris Kubica is editor of Letters to J. D. Salinger and Associate Producer of Salinger, the Weinstein Company feature-length documentary film. Co-founder of the Book2 unconference in New York and the Read Ahead unconference which premiered in London last year, Chris lives in Chapel Hill, NC USA. Like the rest of you, he’s working on a novel. www.twitter.com/chriskubica.
1982 was a shitty year. I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade in Appleton, Wisconsin. My parents were going through a nasty divorce, the kind of thing you see on Jerry Springer.