See if you can’t dig up a copy of the August 2011 Princeton Magazine. There’s a good cover feature by Stuart Mitchner called “Alice’s American Cousin,” about author Joyce Carol… [read full post]
Alice’s American Cousin: Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
“In essence, I think I am, still, this child-self so like an American cousin of Lewis Carroll’s Alice.”
This essay by Joyce Carol Oates, “In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters: Notes on Writerly Influences,” was actually published in Narrative Magazine in Fall 2009, but it’s now available online at… [read full post]