Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal

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Pseudonymous Selves

Pseudonymous Selves

Who have you been, who will you be?

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Originally published as “Success and the Pseudonymous Writer: Turning Over A New Self” in the New York Times Book Review, December 6, 1987. Reprinted in (Woman) Writer.

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