My job at the university is to impersonate “Joyce Carol Oates.”Absolutely worth the read.
Strictly speaking, I am not impersonating this individual, since “Joyce Carol Oates” doesn’t exist, except as an author-identification. On the spines of books shelved in certain libraries and bookstores you will see OATES but this is a descriptive term, this is not a noun.
This is not a person. This is not a life.
A writing-life is not a life.
4.22.2010
Joyce Carol Oates on widowhood
Joyce Carol Oates writes in the Atlantic about her first year as a widow, and it is one of the sadder things I have read. She writes:
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Wow, I am in awe of this article.
ReplyDeleteLike her fiction writing... it is sharp observation, dissociated.
It is genius, stunned.