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27 Clues into Writing Your Heart Out
Things I wish I had known
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June 2023
Meetings of Minds
Some Conversations about Books, Writing, and More
4
May 2023
Memories of My Mother, Carolina Oates
Our lives are time travel, moving in one direction only
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Joyce Carol Oates
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March 2023
An Unexpected Intimacy
Some Thoughts on Writing Through the Decades
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February 2023
My Father, My Fiction
Is character, bred in the bone, absolute fate?
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January 2023
Mr. Rooster
The origin of "morality"
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15
December 2022
The Miraculous Birth
A Poem
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4
November 2022
Thanksgiving
A Short Story
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October 2022
Pumpkin Head
A Short Story
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Reflections on the Grotesque
What is the grotesque—and what is horror—in art?
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4
September 2022
This I Believe
Five Motives for Writing
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Gloria Vanderbilt—Part Two—Portraits
"One breath at a time..."
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