‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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What Is the Biggest Picture?
The novel is a story set in detroit in 19 77. It's really about interreting reality retrospectively, or in the moment. I wanted to experiment with the experience of writing something historical present where it wasn't that clear where it was going. All those possibilities are very exciting to me. i'm sort of interested in some ideas that are philosophical, or some of the ideas that classical science fiction writers explore.
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