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Joyce Carol Oates: High Lonesome
When you've written as many stories as Joyce Carol Oates, the process of choosing just sixty of them for an omnibus is daunting. Here, Oates explores those choices...
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenWhen you've written as many stories as Joyce Carol Oates, the process of choosing just sixty of them for an omnibus is daunting. Here, in High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 (Ecco), Oates explores those choices and--from forty years of experience--draws some conclusions about short-story writing.
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