Tag: fiction
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A Look at Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938. She has reached literary acclaim through her novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Her largest achievement was receiving the National Book Award for her novel, Them. Oates grew up in Lockport, New York, living a farm life that has been repeatedly described…
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Synopsis of I’m in the Room by Lawrence Weill
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I’m in the Room is the droll, witty story about Allen Johnson, a mostly invisible young man from a mostly invisible family in a mostly invisible town. It isn’t that these people and places are incapable of being seen; it’s only that no one seems to notice them. Allen is…
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Does Originality Exist in Fiction, and Can You Attain It?
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“For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily use by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.” -Mark Twain As writers, we can all admit to struggling with the challenge of creating a…