Comments for Crossing the Border

Comment on Married! by Jo Neace Krause

Jo Neace Krause — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:48:23 +0000

Glad they found each other. He looks the part, like he would hold her in his arms and save her from the foggy foggy dew.

Comment on Kentucky Welcomes JCO by Jo Neace Krause

Jo Neace Krause — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:09:29 +0000

I dont know why certain friends of JCO must bring up the fact that she is part Jewish, as if this puts the icing on the cake…..for them. Too bad no one can mention the J word in America unless to point out the J is receiving a prize. Faulkner is of course always mentioned as a WASP, of an old southern slave holding family…maybe if one were allowed to say, Oh, so and so is a Jew, you know those people with the exterminating camp of Gaza, this bigotry passing for ethnic pride would die down a little.

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Shirley Jackson by mcnamara catherine

mcnamara catherine — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:21:46 +0000

in oates book “little bird of heaven” on page 216 line 20 I noticed typo concerning the word “rung”. Shouldn’t it be “wrung”? I enjoy all of her books and look foward to her next.

Comment on Ford and Showalter on JCO’s Marriage by Olivia Eva

Olivia Eva — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:47:49 +0000

Congratulations,

my best wishes for a happy marriage.

olivia Eva

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy by Jo Neace Krause

Jo Neace Krause — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:58:20 +0000

Oates is one of the people who matter. I hope she bags the Nobel Award.

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy by Jo Neace Krause

Jo Neace Krause — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:55:09 +0000

Wonderful comment on JCO and Kennedy. I understand the Kennedy’s Foundation paid Mary Jo’s family 50,000. Think of thowing 50,000 into the brackish waters off the Chappaquiddick Bridge. Shine on Ms Oates.

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy by michael

michael — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:19:53 +0000

What Ted Kennedy did was unforgivable, cowardly and self-serving and for this his name will forever be blackened in the eyes of history – and rightly so!

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy by Michael

Michael — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:21:53 +0000

You seem to have completely misunderstood the import of Joyce Carol Oates’s remarks on Senator Kennedy. She is not asking us to weigh the senator’s life as more meaningful or valuable than Mary Jo Kopechne’s life. Rather, she is asking how someone who allowed her to die can have managed to be eulogized as the greatest democratic senator in history. She is also asking us to question whether his many accomplishments in some way balance out this irreversible tragedy.
As always, Joyce Carol Oates refuses to simplify or back away from difficult, morally ambiguous situations. That’s why she is so vitally important to our nation’s literature and its conscience.

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy by Joyce Carol Oates reflects on the life of Ted Kennedy who passed away last week « interLitQ

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:55:20 +0000

[...] Filed under: Authors, Fiction, Issue 7, The International Literary Quarterly, Writing | In her “Celestial Timepiece” blog, the U.S. novelist Joyce Carol Oates, a contributor to Issue 7 of “The International [...]

Comment on Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy by Olivia Eva

Olivia Eva — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:52:23 +0000

I believe that every human being has a right to live and to survive, no matter whether he or she is shining, outstanding or fascinating in any way.

Even if this young woman in the novel Black Water was the dullest person in the world, the man driving her into the marshes had no right to let her die. He is described as an alcoholic, a liar, a murderer, a cheap guy with an inflated ego.

I greatly appreciate Joyce Carol Oates’ ethical approach to life in her writings and find her one of the best writers worldwide, worthy of the next literary Nobel Prize for Literature.