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the uses of homosocial shame?

In 2018 I took this writing class with Joyce Carol Oates at Berkeley; she taught there one spring semester every year. We were lucky to have her from Princeton, this imposing doyenne of American letters who wore running shoes every week and sat compactly in a hard wooden combination chair-desk like the rest of us. Class was 3 hours long in a basement classroom with no windows. I workshopped two short stories in that class: one was published later. The worse of the two was a heavy-handed story about race and dating a white person. It covered well-trodden territory — the protagonist feeling…

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