“In the immediate days following Ray’s death, I did not teach. Colleagues urged that I take more time off, even the entire semester, but I was eager to return to my fiction workshops the following week, on February 27, in time to attend a joint reading that evening by Honor Moore and Mary Karr in our creative-writing reading series.”
Joyce Carol Oates’ essay, “I’m Sorry to Inform You,” examines her “early days of widowhood” and provides “a glimpse of Oates as a teacher of writers and as caretaker of the literary magazine she and her husband kept in print for so long.”
