<---- I heard Joyce Carol Oates speak yesterday. The woman is so charming. And, adorably old. She read an exert from her soon-to-be new book, "Wild Nights" based on the poem by Emily Dickinson. It's a collection of fiction stories based on the characters of famous writers like Dickinson, Hemingway, and Faulkner. In the piece, Emily Dickinson was a robot in the future who talked in lyrics. Strange, but a really cool spin on an idea that could have been really cliche.
Other highlights:
"You can be a literary writer and never actually meet any real people."
"The most psychologically violent sport is chess. If you're not totally insane when you start, you end up a paranoid schizophrenic."
"I believe that art is the highest power of the human spirit."
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment