Joyce Carol Oates' Take on Tawana Brawley Case

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 6, 2015

This segment originally aired live on February 6, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on August 28, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.

The prolific and acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates has a new book out, and the plot and characters beat a strong-resemblance to the real-life Tawana Brawley story. She talks about the work, The Sacrifice: A Novel (Ecco, 2015).

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