joyce carol oates
October 5, 2009
- Yesterday I was looking over some quotes in my TellTale Souls material for an upcoming workshop when I came across a quote from Joyce Carol Oates from her novel, Missing Mom, which I find apropos to encouraging folks to write mother memoir."last timeLast time you see someone and you don't know it will be the last time. And all that you know now, if only you'd known then. But you didn't ...
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October 2, 2009
- Wanting to meet the author because you like his work is like meeting a duck because you like pâté...Margaret Atwood.I laugh at this quote every time...I always find it so flustering to meet a person I admire...have never found it too fulfilling because it winds up being this weird thing, unsatisfying...I don't know, like a bad aftertaste. It's always so awkward meeting the famous anyway, ...
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May 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON — Congress announced plans today to review the use of performance-enhancing drugs among American authors, with star-studded hearings scheduled next month and legislation to limit access to steroids. Two House panels are planning mid-January hearings featuring former President Bill Clinton, who made extensive comments on the issue in April during a wide-ranging seven-hour speech at ...
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January 17, 2009
- I’d like to offer additional questions for discussion at the Key West Literary Conference: Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth. Much of the discussion has centered on two questions: a) why write historical novels and b) what are the requirements of accuracy? How about: Eras in the past are marked by more than just a difference in fashion or modes of transportation; there have been ...
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December 26, 2008
- I’ll admit it. One of the things I love about Facebook is that it gives me the impression of being in contact with so many people from all phases of my life–elementary school classmates, lost friends from high school, college comrades who fought the good fight alongside me or worked at the Kresge Food Co-op with me or studied women with me (in class, you know), exes and colleagues and ...
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September 14, 2008
- It all began because one of my daughters lives in Philadelphia (where she is employed by Big Pharma, but enough about that). She sent me a flyer on a group called Pennwriters and suggested that I consider joining. When the flyer arrived, I was going to toss it onto my "save for much later, if ever" pile. Suddenly, the flyer slid out of my hands, and I saw the headline. Joyce Carol Oates ...
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June 12, 2008
- Just for a bit of inspiration, I dipped into Joyce Carol Oates, The Faith of a Writer. Battling a cold, I'd taken to my bed with her book, the novel I'm rereading--A Separate Peace--and a new book of writing exercises called, Naming the World, edited by Bret Anthony Johnston.In an essay on inspiration, Oates quotes Virginia Woolf. She'd written about the connection between style and rhythm in one ...
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June 12, 2008
- Last week I finished a first draft of my second novel. Two days after writing the last line, I turned to the first chapter. I had planned to give the whole draft a rest, but about month or so ago, I read that Joyce Carol Oates writes the last chapter and the first chapter of her works-in-progress simultaneously, to ensure consistency of voice. I'm no Joyce, but I thought it made sense--knowing ...
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