HeyJaredJoyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal
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The Mutants (opens the original)
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Originally published in The Observer, December 23, 2001. Collected in “I Am No One You Know: Stories.”Edited and arranged by Robert FriedmanSubscribe nowThe tragedy of 9/11 was so profound, for many of us there were literally—initially—no wor
About “We Were the Mulvaneys” (opens the original)
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Some Poems (opens the original)
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Letters to a Biographer (opens the original)
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