Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Short Stories, tagged fiction, journalism on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Fact vs. Fiction
Dan P. Lee of Philadelphia Magazine has published a long article on the death of John Fiocco, Jr. Selected details from initial reports on the tragedy were the starting point for a JCO story, “Landfill,” which publication in the New Yorker caused a brief local storm of indignation when its source material was [...]
Posted in Books, Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, Reviews, tagged Salman Rushdie on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Joyce Carol Oates has been a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books, contributing nearly fifty review-essays since the early nineties.
JCO’s latest are reviews of Boxing: A Cultural History in the May 29 NYRB: “As Kasia Boddy’s masterwork of bricolage sweeps on, there comes to be something wonderfully Joycean—oceanic, indefatigable, slightly deranged—in the [...]
Posted in Astronomy, Books, Joyce Carol Oates on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The current banner image for this blog and for Celestial Timepiece is taken from HubbleSite, run for NASA by the Space Telescope Science Institute. STScI titles the image “Cone Nebula (NGC 2264): Star-Forming Pillar of Gas and Dust,” and further describes it as “a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea”—as if this [...]
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