‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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The Harder Parts of Spending Your Life Writing
"What is the point of a life's work when it can bring upon the writer such cruelty?" she writes. "I've often thought that people like my parents, and many people maybe throughout history, they never actually see or hear anything critical about themselves." She goes on to describe her bouts of discouragement, dread, bewilderment.
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