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Content warning: The following article contains references to sexual assault, rape, and police brutality. As a high school senior traipsing through AP English Literature class, I was regularly ...
“I have so many ideas, and I have so many notes here at my study. I just won’t live to write them all,” Joyce Carol Oates said recently. Her oeuvre spans novels, novellas, short stories, plays, poetry ...