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Joyce Carol Oates & The Hitcher
Oct. 18th, 2015 06:08 pmJOYCE CAROL OATES
I am so fucking excited - Harvard Book Store, which always has wonderful author events (earlier this month, Kate Beaton + book signing with free copy of "Step Aside Pops", $22 !!!), is hosting Joyce Carol Oates tomorrow, with $5 admission tickets. I died. I bought a ticket. I might faint.
I was first introduced to Joyce Carol Oates through her short story collection, specifically "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (story here) and "Where Is Here", (story here) two pieces I read as a teenager for English class which resonated so strongly with me that they've greatly influenced the stories I like and the way I write.
I adore the way JCO writes thrillers: unsettling, unpredictable, weird. It whetted my taste for surreal fiction, inspiring my love for writers like Karen Russell, Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, stories where the boundaries of normal were warped with dreamlike characters who operated under the new rules of their reality. ("It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" - Inception).
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I am so fucking excited - Harvard Book Store, which always has wonderful author events (earlier this month, Kate Beaton + book signing with free copy of "Step Aside Pops", $22 !!!), is hosting Joyce Carol Oates tomorrow, with $5 admission tickets. I died. I bought a ticket. I might faint.
I was first introduced to Joyce Carol Oates through her short story collection, specifically "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" (story here) and "Where Is Here", (story here) two pieces I read as a teenager for English class which resonated so strongly with me that they've greatly influenced the stories I like and the way I write.
I adore the way JCO writes thrillers: unsettling, unpredictable, weird. It whetted my taste for surreal fiction, inspiring my love for writers like Karen Russell, Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, stories where the boundaries of normal were warped with dreamlike characters who operated under the new rules of their reality. ("It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange" - Inception).
( Read more... )
