This is the truth as I imagine it: Joyce Carol Oates, so full of words that they tumble out of her and so she has to just put them places. Into novels, that’s the obvious…
Posts tagged Joyce Carol Oates
Widow without you
I think I handled the grieving process better when John Dunne died than when Raymond Smith did. Something about Joyce Carol Oates’ memoir A Widow’s Story, chronicling the aftermath of her forever husband’s sudden death,…
Stories: All-New Tales
Stories: All New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, makes me want to add more short story collections to my ever-growing read list. In the introduction, Gaiman states that he and Sarrantonio: “…wanted…
6 questions we always ask — Nicole Johns, author
Nicole Johns received an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a BA in English from Penn State University-Erie. Her eating disorder developed in high school and worsened in college. The summer after starting the…
6 questions we alway ask — Kelly
Kelly is a writer and a high school English teacher who is on her way to becoming a funeral director (I know!). Her short stories are quiet, controlled and very, very twisted (she once wrote…