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BLONDE

A Marilyn Monroe conversation with Joyce Carol Oates

Over twenty years ago, Joyce Carol Oates wrote the book that just might become the hottest movie of 2022. Blonde is the life story of Marilyn Monroe told in a completely original, fictional way.

Long before “me too” Oates told the story of Hollywood’s most iconic star, and her emotionally fractured path to the top. It wasn’t glamorous. It was gritty. It was sordid. It was filled with disappointment and sorrow. Nevertheless, Norma Jeans star ascended, just as her soul was being crushed by a system people only whispered about.

Oates and Monroe: Dream life of a bombshell

With the publication of Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates was booked for a series of radio interviews. That’s where our paths crossed. When our interview happened she was still under the spell of being recently possessed not only by Americas sweetheart, but a true human of extraordinary beauty and severely bad luck. 

Here’s Joyce Carol Oates conversing with Professor Mikey about her new novel in the year 2000, the myth and the magic of Blonde.

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