Joyce Carol Oates Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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

plus Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents"--oddly not mentioned in this argument. https://t.co/F4zZaKmlWD

Joyce Carol Oates

what dates Shirley Jackson's classic nightmare "The Lottery" is that just one citizen in the village is killed a year. in contemporary US, many times the population of the village would be slaughtered in a few weeks' time with no "sacred" ritual needed. https://t.co/AgMYqTIlu1

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/review-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you.html?smid=tw-share

Joyce Carol Oates

(what a wonderful book this is!--poetry, prose-poetry, visionary language, heartbreak crystalized into images of surpassing beauty & mystery: Victoria Chang's "Obit.") https://t.co/CqaE4hQx86

Joyce Carol Oates

people who are publicly & noisily "triggered" by a literary novel ("Beloved") are just boasting that they can read, which we doubt. probably, this person skimmed the text looking to be shocked by a random word or two & had no idea what Toni Morrison had written. https://t.co/0tYFp2sBYf

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…

Joyce Carol Oates

Exciting to be at David Hare’s new play “Straight Line Crazy” at The Shed at Hudson Yards https://t.co/HZZHy1hsLF

Joyce Carol Oates

Is the 1945 film "And Then There Were None" a faithful remake of the Agatha Christie novel? the film is very well executed & makes of the preposterous plot a brisk comedy of the absurd in which individuals die but their corpses don't decompose or cause much discomfort.