In the September 25 edition of the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates reviews Christopher Benfrey’s A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade; and Brenda Wineapple’s White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
“And the hummingbird as [...]
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The Woman in White
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviews, tagged Emily Dickinson, Martin Johnson Heade on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kentucky Welcomes JCO
Posted in Awards, Books, Interviews, Joyce Carol Oates, Uncategorized, tagged Nancy Grace, Nobel Prize on September 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cheryl Truman, books editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, profiles and interviews Joyce Carol Oates in advance of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.
Tidbits of interest:
Oates didn’t used to be much of a TV watcher but admits immersing herself in tabloid-news TV to research My Sister, My Love: Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Nancy Grace (“I think sometimes she [...]
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