Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

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Notes on Failure

Notes on Failure

What must the midnights be?

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Originally published in The Hudson Review, 1982, and later collected in “The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews” in 1983.

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