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Joyce Carol Oates
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"Author Joyce Carol Oates on Widowhood’s ‘World of Absurdity’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. February 3, 2011.
The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.