Exploring decades of literary friendship:Joyce Carol Oates’ Letters to a Biographer

Exploring decades of literary friendship:Joyce Carol Oates’ Letters to a Biographer

Joyce Carol Oates has written more than 70 books. Her latest is a selection of letters that eventually led to her correspondent writing her biography.

  • byJP O'Malley

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Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

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