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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Joyce Carol Oates Says She Was Joking About Those Poor Dinos

National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates would like to set the record straight: She does not fear for the fate of the mechanical Triceratops being plundered by Steven Spielberg.

The very earnest-seeming tweet that lit up the Internet Tuesday was meant "as a joke," Oates tells Newsweek.


But let's back up. Oates is a celebrated novelist. She is also a prolific tweeter. Many people enjoy her Twitter presence (she has more than 100,000 followers). Others do not.

Joyce Carol Oates poses during a photocall after she won the Literary Award with her book "Blonde" in 2010. Vincent Kessler/Reuters VINCENT KESSLER/REUTERS

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