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Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol...

By Jason Kottke • 1 min read
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Interviews with five novelists (Jesmyn Ward, Joyce Carol Oates, Jhumpa Lahiri, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood) on writing something true with fiction. Oates: “If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI.

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