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The Unruly Genius of Joyce Carol Oates
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I remember being amazed that death could so easily rise up from the nothing of a boyish afternoon, billow up like fog.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
I have to write to discover what I am doing. —Flannery O’Connor
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
Two cords of stacked wood had not kept the woman in the house across Marlboro Street from becoming a widow at dinner.
Joan Didion • The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International)

when precisely did the author know she was in trouble?
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice