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...written so many books that she has lost track of the exact number. (It's more than 100.) Her breadth as a writer is legendary-novels, short stories, poetry, reviews, nonfiction. This month Joyce Carol Oates adds a provocative new novel to her lengthy r?sum?: Black Girl/White Girl, the story of two college roommates-and one's mysterious death. Oates, 68, talked with TIME's Andrea Sachs about race relations, writer's block and the joys of running...
...People are always asking me that, but they seem not actually to have read the books. There isn't much really-maybe 1% of a novel. Much of my writing is about the aftermath of violence, especially when women and children are involved. It's about dealing with violence and becoming stronger...
...Politically I'm a liberal. But I'm not overtly political in my writing. I have written work like Black Water, which would seem to be very critical of our Senator [Ted Kennedy], who left the girl to drown at Chappaquiddick. This person in my novel had excellent political credentials-he was a liberal. I wasn't concerned with his politics, but with his moral behavior...
This opening dialogue offers the potential for an insightful critique of the societal tendency to conflate persons and property. Unfortunately, instead of developing this theme (not so foreign to the aspiring i-banker set), the novel descends into hackneyed tropes of the romance genre. This third installment of Willig’s “Pink Carnation” series is ultimately concerned with providing the reader vicarious erotic gratification...
...literally”one of many misleading terms, but it’s also had multiple meanings for quite a while. The third aforementioned quote–the land literally flowed with milk and honey–comes straight from Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women. And who doesn’t remember Fitzgerald’s description of Jay Gatsby: “He literally glowed?” But neither was the town of Plumfield overrun with food-stuffs nor our favorite social climber actually luminescent. [EDITOR'S NOTE APPENDED...