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Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A Novel by Joyce Carrolots

The story is an attemptto sort of distill into fictional form the story of dommer, and also, according to joyce, a ted bundy. So it's obviously not easy reading. Why do you think that a writer like joyce carrolots, who has little in common with jeffrey dommer or any serial killer, would choose this subject matter for a story? My sense of i've read by her, is her imagination tends to get activated when it's brought into contact with things that are very different from our own. And there's something that seems to cause her talent to really bubble and jump in that situation.

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