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Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Longtime Conjunctions contributor Joyce Carol Oates’s books include The Doll-Master and Other Stories (Mysterious Press), A Book of American Martyrs, and Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life (both Ecco). Her story “Undocumented Alien” in Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens received a Pushcart Prize.

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Vol. 71
Conjunctions:71
A Cabinet of Curiosity
Fall 2018
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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In the Permanent Collection
by Mary-Kim Arnold
March 19, 2019
Do this in memory of my mother

and of my mother’s mother

Here is this lacquered box (Fig. 100.5)           inlaid

with their blood
Nietzsche at Night
by Meredith Stricker
March 12, 2019
after collapsing at the plaza fountain in Turin Nietzsche gave up
coherent speech and stayed alive somewhere else for almost twelve years
his unmapped terrain resembled a canvas painted black in successive
luminous opacities of backlit abyss, if he turned on a television
this is what he saw, if he closed his eyes, if he looked out the window
again unshielded night
The Page Turner
by Tova Reich
March 5, 2019
For once they all agreed, it would be the concert of the season, the return of the prodigy son. The Jerusalem music scene was in heat—survivors, empty seat fillers, remnants planted on their subscriptions, but from the neck up, in brainpans that went on ticking, still the strictest standards, the highest expectations.
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