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Joyce Carol Oates Creates Fiction Out Of True Scandal

caption: Joyce Carol Oates at Eastern Washington University's Get Lit! festival in 2013.
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Joyce Carol Oates at Eastern Washington University's Get Lit! festival in 2013.
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Ross Reynolds interviews author Joyce Carol Oates about her latest novel, "The Sacrifice." It’s a fictionalized account based off the 1987 episode of Tawana Brawley, who falsely accused six men of rape.

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