This ‘blog is now the news section for Celestial Timepiece: the Joyce Carol Oates Home Page. Here you’ll find notice of updates to Celestial Timepiece; links to JCO-related pieces on the wider web; and, from time to time, a more personal take on the world of JCO.
For twelve and a half years, Celestial Timepiece has been a repository of information and facts about Joyce Carol Oates and her writing. During that time I purposely avoided personal commentary, not wanting to become an apologist, antagonist, propagandist, etc. And though still I don’t wish to be these things, I do feel it is time to offer an opinion when it seems warranted.
Celestial Timepiece will continue as before, but with, in effect, an Editorial page. This weblog marks my gently crossing that editorial line, Crossing the Border.
Hi Randy,
I’m planning to write a thesis on JCO’s Foxfire.
In the discussion group I found the article “Foxfire in the Crossfire” by Lawrence Hill. Please could you tell me where and when it was published, so I can cite her?
In case you have any piece of advice where I can find more articles about the book, please let me know (my German online database hasn’t been very successful this far…)
Thanks a lot for your help!
Nici
Hi Nici,
The article (in an edited version of what you have seen) was published in the Globe and Mail (Canada) in Feb 11, 1997, pp. E1, and titled: “Parents’ smear campaign scores some disturbing victories.”
Check the JCO bibliography for listings of other articles/books: http://jco.usfca.edu/works/glassark.html
Randy
Hi Randy,
Speaking of Foxfire, we’re looking to show the film version here at our screening series sometime over the summer. Do you know who might hold the rights to this?
Thanks,
Todd
Hi Todd,
I don’t know — that’s out of my realm. Perhaps contacting the distributor of the dvd?
Randy
Hi Randy,
As an obviously excellent reference librarian, and a blogger, I am sure you read all the posts to this website, and thus have read mine on the piece you wrote reacting to Janet Maslin’s insensitive review of Widow’s Story.
Now that JCO has written a memoir about her grief, or at least the first six months of it, you are like me in that you have become something of a reluctant expert on the subject, albeit for very different reasons.
I am writing here (where there hasn’t been a posting for a year) to share something with you now that presumably you’ve read about my losing my wife. She was also a reference librarian.
You can read about her here, where a local blogger posted two of the newspaper stories about her life and death:
middlebororeview.blogspot.com/2010/01/betty-brown.html
Thanks for sharing this, Hal, Betty sounds like a wonderful person and a great librarian. Our head reference librarian here was diagnosed with cancer last summer, and died in December, about a month before your wife, so this strikes me on a number of levels.
Randy