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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Reading Beyond the Personal Level

Mr. Graves: I think that people like Angela Carter and some writers like Joyce Carol Oates who really writes across genre are working in this area. He says he's suspicious of any attempt to read beyond, you know, what happens to you as a reader on the most sort of personal level when you read something. "There's nothing worse than a way too sophisticated interpretation of ... Dickey de la Qua"

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