At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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The Importance of Staying Alive
I'm impressed by your ability to keep going, especially as we sit in your house here after reading this new book. I guess I not heard it describe like that before through the drain that you're talking about. Well, people don't usually talk about things like that. Maybe there's a taboo. You must have older people in your family who've lost their spouses, like a grandmother, a grandfather. How are they getting along? Well, maybe never mind. But if you've been married say 50 years, some people have married 60 years and they lose a spouse, it's actually undescribable. It's just kind of people who have suffered losses, make all kinds of
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