At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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The Gravitational Pull of Tragic Events
I thrive like a plant that can only be nurtured in a very small area, but would have been destroyed outside this sheltered area. I wonder if that gravitational pull towards tragedy has to do with when and where you were raised. You grew up on a small farm in Miller's port,. Your father was a sign painter, your mother, a homemaker. You attended the same one room schoolhouse your mother went to years before you.
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