Episode 19: Literary giant Joyce Carol Oates discusses her latest novel, <em>Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.</em>, about grief, family and police brutality in modern America

Written By Peita Jackson

Photo credit: Dustin Cohen

Joyce Carol Oates talks about a widow’s grief , the importance of bearing witness in a modern America riddled with racism, and having to fight again battles fought and won in the 1960s.

 
Peita Jackson
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Episode 18: Karen Williams OAM, Executive Director of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, discusses the Foundation’s wonderful work providing books to remote indigenous communities