How to Proceed – with Joyce Carol Oates

In this episode, Linn Ullmann talks to the American author Joyce Carol Oates about memories and loss, about «bearing witness» through literature, about her mother and grandmother, about the US today, about writing, failure – and boxing.

Music by Kingocito and Sandra Kolstad. Artwork by Julius Vidarssønn Langhoff.

This episode was made possible in collaboration with Louisiana Literature in Denmark and the International Writer’s Stage in Stockholm, Sweden.

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You can read more about Joyce Carol Oates and her publications here, and more about Linn Ullmann and her publications here.

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Brian Moore

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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Norma Jeane Baker/ Marilyn Monroe

Terrance Hayes

Emily Dickinson

Walt Whitman

Stendhal

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass

Mary Ruefle