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I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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- Joyce Carol Oates
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- Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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