The New Yorker: Fiction

Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

Jul 1, 2022

01:05:38

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Is There a Moral Stand for Fiction?

02:56

Is She Observing the Situation?

02:13

I Don't Think He's Complicated, Is It?

03:05

Introduction

2min

A Novel by Joyce Carrolots

2min

Zombi by Joyce Carroll Oates

4min

Is Your Client Plead Not Guilty?

2min

Is the Attic Like a Zombi?

2min

The Importance of a Zombie

3min

I'm Cool, My Dad Droped by to See How I Was, and How Was He?

6min

Frontal Lobotamy, Reversible Psycho Surgery

5min

Quintin, Aren't You Making Real Progress?

4min

10.

Mam's Message Was Screwed Up on the Answering Tape

2min

11.

Ma'am, I'm Sure Going to See to That, Ma'AM

5min

12.

The Black Hole That Sucks You In

2min

13.

A Landfill or Dump Is a Good Bet

3min

14.

Ang, Thank You, Son, Quotenquot

4min

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Is There a Moral Stand for Fiction?

3min

16.

Is She Observing the Situation?

2min

17.

Do You Think That the Story Is Merely Observing or Disapproving?

6min

18.

I Love Joyce Olot's Non Fiction

2min

19.

I Don't Think He's Complicated, Is It?

3min

20.

Zombi Is a Creature of Horror

2min

21.

The Value of Writing About Someone Challenging

2min

22.

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast

2min

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Zombie,” by Joyce Carol Oates, which was published in The New Yorker in 1994. Sharma is the author of the novels “Family Life” and “An Obedient Father,” which will be reissued in a revised version this month.

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Akhil Sharma Reads Joyce Carol Oates

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Is There a Moral Stand for Fiction?

Is She Observing the Situation?

I Don't Think He's Complicated, Is It?

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