Joyce Carol Oates Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Joyce Carol Oates

(many of us, perhaps most, who have had long careers, realize that a significant number of our novels/ stories would not be published today, probably. "sensitivity readers" would certainly reject Faulkner, Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Welty ("Where is the Voice Coming From?") https://t.co/xkOIQi6c5e

Joyce Carol Oates

all credit, entire credit, 100% credit to Mary Shelley, 18 years old when she began "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus." most impressive fiction debut, ever. https://t.co/veZS8mueWE

Joyce Carol Oates

I really am an experimental writer, and…experimental writing doesn’t sell…when I look at a novel by Cormac McCarthy like “Child of God,” that is a novel that I love. I thought, Wow, it’s so funny and weird and wonderful, and I don’t think there’s almost any readership for that.

Joyce Carol Oates

RT @angelique1z: Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates review – a portrait of a family and a nation in crisis ⁦@JoyceCarolOa…

Joyce Carol Oates

interesting to compare Marian Engels's novella "Bear" (1967) with Rachel Ingalls's "Mrs. Caliban" (1982). "The Bear" is one of the most controversial & famous of Canadian novels while "Mrs. Caliban" occupies a more modest, cultish status among admirers of literary fiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

the author makes the point that each "Great Book" contains much that is objectionable & offensive in some way, exempting only a novel by Jane Austen--which, in fact, might well offend some readers for its privileging of marriage, heterosexual pieties, & tacit conservatism. https://t.co/b76omPAX8Z

Joyce Carol Oates

Ursula Parrott became a millionaire by writing women's romances but her first novel "Ex-Wife" is really a witty, searing anti-romance, like a novel Dorothy Parker might have written if she'd taken herself more seriously. https://t.co/Aq5kDehMq3

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Henry Adams grimly foresaw the ruination/rot of democracy by wealth: one billionaire can purchase countless votes & "push state to the far right" out of some whim of pseudo-conviction such as women's bodies must be controlled by men, or there are some lives "unworthy of life"... https://t.co/pBMZUMHidA

Joyce Carol Oates

At its most entertaining Ex-Wife is a Broadway play in novel form, with briskly clever dialogue tending toward the comic-aphoristic, as if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian era.

Joyce Carol Oates

RT @LiteraryVienna: „It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.“ Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness https://t.co/ujdt6z…