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Interview with Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oats, author of We Were the Mulvaneys, Faithless: Tales of Transgression and Them, starts her interview with Don Swaim by reading a poem by Stephen Crane, Because It Is Bitter, And Because It Is My Heart. It was this poem that inspired her newest novel at the time of this interview of the same title. The novel takes her back to her early girlhood in segregated Lockport, New York, during the 50s and early 60s. She feels she loses her past and must reconstruct her self. If leaves her past behind it creates bitter sweetness. She is a romantic person about books. She studied English and philosophy in college and was the first in her family to graduate from high school. This National Book Award winner for a novel about the Detroit race riots talks about her interest in the integration of races and different ethnic groups. To hear more from Oats' experiences as a professional writer and as a professor of creative writing at Princeton, click on the link below. Listen
to the Joyce Carol Oates interview with Don Swaim, 1990
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For over a decade, many of the best writers of the English language found their way onto Don Swaim's daily two-minute CBS Radio show, Book Beat . His New York-based program was derived from longer interviews, sometimes 40-minutes in length. Found exclusively here, Wired for Books proudly webcasts these conversations in their entirety using RealAudio. © Ohio University |
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