Uncensored Views Reviews 1st Edition by Joyce Carol Oates ISBN 0060775564 9780060775575

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ISBN 10: 0060775564 

ISBN 13: 9780060775575

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates’s most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New York Times Book Review.

Oates states in her preface, “In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent,” and indeed, the voice of these “conversations” echoes the voice of her fiction in its dramatic directness, ethical perspective, and willingness to engage the reader in making critical judgments. Under the heading “Not a Nice Person,” such controversial figures as Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, and Muriel Spark are considered without sentimentality or hyperbole; under “Our Contemporaries, Ourselves,” such diversely talented figures as William Trevor, E. L. Doctorow, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Connelly, Alice Sebold, Mary Karr, Anne Tyler, and Ann Patchett are examined. In sections of “homages” and “revisits,” Oates writes with enthusiasm and clarity of such cultural icons as Emily Brontë, Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, Balthus, and Muhammad Ali (“The Greatest”); after a lapse of decades, she (re)considers the first film version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Americana, Don DeLillo’s first novel, as well as the morality of selling private letters and the nostalgic significance of making a pilgrimage to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond.

Through these balanced and illuminating essays we see Oates at the top of her form, engaged with forebears and contemporaries, providing clues to her own creative process: “For prose is a kind of music: music creates ‘mood.’ What is argued on the surface may be but ripples rising from a deeper, subtextual urgency.”

Table of contents:

Preface
Part I: “Not a Nice Person”

• Uncensored Sylvia Plath

• “Restoring” Willie Stark

• Catherizing Willa

• Merciless Highsmith

• “Glutton for Punishment”: Richard Yates

• “Not a Nice Person”: Muriel Spark

Part II: Our Contemporaries, Ourselves

• Irish Elegy: William Trevor

• “Our Cheapened Dreams”: E. L. Doctorow

• “Despair of Living”: Anita Brookner

• An Artist of the Floating World: Kazuo Ishiguro

• “City of Light”: Robert Drewe’s The Shark Net

• L.A. Noir: Michael Connelly

• Ringworm Belt: Memoirs by Mary Karr

• Evolutionary Fever: Andrea Barrett’s Servants of the Map

• “New Memoir”: Alice Sebold’s Lucky

• Property Of: Valerie Martin’s Property

• Programmed by Art: David Lodge’s Thinks…

• Ghosts: Hilary Mantel

• An Endangered Species: Short Stories

• News from Everywhere: Short Stories

• Mythmaking Realist: Pat Barker

• Crazy for Love: Scott Spencer’s A Ship Made of Paper

• Amateurs: Anne Tyler’s The Amateur Marriage

• Memoirs of Crisis: Ann Patchett’s Truth & Beauty

Part III: Homages

• Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

• “Tragic Mulatta”: Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter

• Ernest Hemingway

• “You Are the We of Me”: Carson McCullers

• Remembering Robert Lowell

• “About Whom Nothing Is Known”: Balthus

• In the Ring and Out: Jack Johnson

• Muhammad Ali: “The Greatest”

Part IV: (Re)Visits

• The Vampire’s Secret: (Re)viewing Tod Browning’s Dracula after Forty Years

• Don DeLillo’s Americana (1971) Revisited

• Them Revisited

• A Garden of Earthly Delights Revisited

• On the Composition of I Lock My Door Upon Myself

• Private Writings, Public Betrayals

• Pilgrimage to Walden Pond: 1962, 2003

Acknowledgments

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