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Joyce Carol Oates on The Writer's Craft

"Memoirist fiction" is how Joyce Carol Oates describes her novel "I'll Take You There" -- it's a fictional construct, but clearly modeled after Oates' own college experience. Which raises interesting questions about how much any author pours herself into her characters. In the case of Oates' main character -- who is never even given a name in the book -- she's a young woman who reminds Oates of herself.

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