Joyce Carol Oates

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Michael Silverblatt

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Missing Mom (Ecco)

Joyce Carol Oates says this novel was written as a tribute to her mother, who died last year. Clearer, simpler, less literary than Oates' other books, it was meant to be a novel her mother would have enjoyed. Oates intended to publish it under a pseudonym. Her editor loved the book, and Oates agreed to let him publish it under her own name--which provokes this conversation about naive and sophisticated readers.

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Joyce Carol Oates: author, 'Missing Mom', @JoyceCarolOates

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