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Another quick post to say that the conference overall was earning raves from participants. To a person, speakers from around the country were impressed with the quality of the discussion and the way the conference's focus on nonfiction gives a clarity of purpose to the event. Joyce Carol Oates, the brightest of the literary lights on the program, delivered a keynote that was, for the first half, worthy of a slightly confused college professor, as she sifted through piles of notes and gave a halting history lesson of the modern narrative. Then, she opened up and discussed her own writing, focusing on how she came to write "On Boxing." And she sounded like the literary superstar she is. Her history lesson did contain an exhaustive reading list. We'll be sorting our own pile of notes and attempting to post that later. |
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