
Joyce Carol Oates
09/09/20 • 67 min
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.
Read more in our show notes, right here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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.
Read more in our show notes, right here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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