joyce carol oates
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10 Tips On Writing From Joyce Carol Oates
Write your heart out. The first sentence can be written only after the last sentence has been written. FIRST DRAFTS ARE HELL. FINAL DRAFTS, PARADISE. You are writing for your contemporaries — not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your…
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Joyce Carol Oates on Twitter
“140 characters too short for heartbreak but ideal for heartburn” – @Joycecaroloates It’s happening: Joyce Carol Oates, writer and recent recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement, has joined twitter this month. Oates’s twitter personality is wise and…
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The Rumpus Interview with Dylan Landis
Dylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
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How Well Do You Know Truman Capote?
Truman Capote’s social celebrity is a defining feature of his legacy—it added another element to his literary prowess and his visible lifestyle was definitely a point of contention for people. Many people had things to say about his lifestyle, and…
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Fourth Down and Longing
A memoir of life as a disappointed fan becomes a meditation on “isolation and the things we do to overcome our loneliness… emptiness, and not knowing how to fill it.”
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Straight Outta Nebraska
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.
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Notable New York, This Week 1/11 – 1/17
In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who will also be reading at The Rumpus’s first anniversary party)…