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

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

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brilliant adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel "Passing" by first-time filmmaker Rebecca Hall. utterly riveting & disquieting film set in Harlem in the 1920's in dreamlike black-and-white photography evocative of another era. each scene is beautifully shot & acting superb.

Joyce Carol Oates

RT @_DavidMorrell: For a spooky Halloween read, I recommend THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins. This prime example of a sensation novel d…

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

RT @writersdoing: Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880 https://t.co/xY039Qnvo8

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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

how original it would have been if Kate Chopin had not acquiesced to the male/puritan/ punitive prerogative that an adulterous woman must die in "The Awakening." (not that it saved her from public censure & "cancellation.")

Joyce Carol Oates

each chapter is linked, but distinct. the first is just a couple of young Irish men experiencing a slight strain in their friendship, ending with Stephen walking off irked. it's based upon James Joyce & a friend, Joyce's pride injured, mildly. could be a story in "Dubliners." https://t.co/YouYnmosDe

Joyce Carol Oates

The stories of Good and Evil are powerfully evocative and unsettling. They seem to hover, indeed like fever dreams, between the reassuring familiarities of domestic life and the stark, unpredictable, visionary flights of the unconscious.