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b'Joy Castro works in memoir, nonfiction, both literary and so-called commercialfiction, and poetry. And she\\u2019ll also be directing the Institute for Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln this fall. Castro speaks about her somewhat unorthodox writing process, the course of her career, the distinctions (real or false) between literary and commercial fiction, and whether or not she\\u2019d feel comfortable leaving her child with the \\u201cslutty drunken\\u201d narrator of her crime thrillers.'