‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates
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In detroit, john updyke said that research is the innocent part of writing. What was that innocent period for this book? You alluded to a serial killer in detroit from the late seventies. Well, since i lived there at the time, and i remember the experience of being in a a situation that's sort of unfolding,. The kind of existential drama of each day, not knowing what would happen. So that's the backdrop of this book. That's the material.
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