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Mar 17, 2021
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This week, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “strange to have come of age reading great novels of ambition, substance, & imagination (Dostoyevsky, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner) & now find yourself praised & acclaimed for wan little husks of ‘auto fiction’ with space between paragraphs to make the book seem longer...it’s as if expectations have withered with readers’…

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