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This book felt like a piece of evil popped up straight from hell! I had no idea that I had voluntarily chosen to look into the mind of a psychopathic serial killer in such an intimate way. I have no idea how Joyce Carol Oates managed to do it, but she did it in most convincing way and it scared the hell out of me.

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Dahmer stated in an interview with Stone Phillips, "The only motive that there ever was to completely control a person, a person I found physically attractive, and keep them with me as long as possible, even if it meant keeping a part of them." [1] Trescott, Jacqueline (March 2, 2011). "White House to honor 19 with National Humanities Medal and National Medal for the Arts". Washingtonpost.com . Retrieved June 14, 2011. Gupta, Prachi (July 6, 2013). "Joyce Carol Oates's Islamophobic tweets". Salon.com . Retrieved August 8, 2017. Violence marred the lives of Oates and her recent ancestors: Oates's mother's biological father was murdered in 1917, which led to Oates mother's informal adoption; and Oates's paternal grandmother survived, at age fourteen, an attempted murder-suicide at the hands of her own father. [10] When she was a child, Oates’s next-door neighbor pled guilty to charges of arson and attempted murder of his family, and was sentenced to a prison term at Attica Correctional Facility. [11] A bizarre medical condition%E2%80%94anterograde amnesia%E2%80%94is the linchpin holding together Oates's latest novel, a profound and moving meditation on how memory shapes our personalities and, by Continue reading »

Gang of Bullies: When Quentin was in high school he was teased with the chant; "QUEER QUEER, QUENTIN'S QUEER". Oates long ago established herself as the nation's literary Weegee, prowling the mean streets of the American mind and returning with gloriously lurid takes on our midnight obsessions. If she has Continue reading » Everything is given in so many details. And I am usually not overly sensitive to body horror, but man – if I could only forget some parts! But what Joyce Carol Oates means to tell us is far too simple. A dozen serial murderers do not by themselves certify a monstrous social world or culture -- although they're surely sufficient to cause one to think gravely about any world that in part The 22 intensely imagined, haunting stories in Oates's (American Appetites ) 19th anthology of reprinted short fiction mine her familiar territory--gothic, supernatural atmospheres, doppelgangers, Continue reading »

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Oates makes a false step with her first children's book, a strained tale of a kitten found by the side of the road. At the urging of their daughter, Lily, the Smiths take Muffin home, where he is Continue reading » Woo, Elaine (September 8, 1999). "Obituaries: Evelyn Shrifte, Longtime Head of Vanguard Press". Los Angeles Times. what is excruciatingly painful, awful to imagine and difficult to contemplate into rapid, fluent and easy-to-read prose is a characteristic attribute of the traditional Gothic literary imagination -- whose resources and conventions Ms. At 118 North Church I am CARETAKER for this residence once my grandparents’ home. None of the tenants know this fact I am certain and I would not be the one to tell them. and has never been caught -- indeed, until the very end of the novella he has never even been suspected of anything really predatory. It helps that his victims have -- until the exception at the end -- regularly been socially marginal

Phillips, Robert (Fall–Winter 1978). " 'The Art of Fiction No. 72: Joyce Carol Oates' (interview)". The Paris Review. Vol.74. Oates’s introduction to Akashic’s noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book. While few of the 19 selections qualify Continue reading »

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This hefty collection, featuring 10 new pieces along with stories culled from four decades, further establishes the prolific and wide-ranging Oates as a gifted chronicler of American culture. The Continue reading » I have access to all the floors of the house. Because I am CARETAKER. My father R__ P__ has entrusted me with this responsibility & I am grateful for the chance to make things up to him & Mom. My master key will open the door to any room in the house.The property is still owned by my Grandma P__ who lives now in Dale Springs. But it is maintained by my father R__ P__ as a multi-tenant residence partitioned into nine rental units as approved by the zoning commission. radiation." In other words, Ms. Oates's aberrant protagonist seems to be, on one side, little more than an individualized and monomaniacally focused version of what American society itself is capable of on its legitimate scientific With this latest collection, Oates continues to delve into the dark depths of the human condition with diverse stories of loss, regret, angst, and murder. This audio edition features a series of Continue reading » There is something meretricious and all too easy about this proposition and the narrative that carries it. Certainly America is a violent society, and just as certainly the medical profession, including psychiatry, has perpetrated its due share of shameful

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Plus, body horror is not my favorite kind of horror. I like suspense. Slow building tension. Mystery and untrustworthy ambience. The unsettling atmosphere… Accidental Murder: Quentin never intended to kill any of his victims. What he wants is to turn them into mindless "sex zombies". It's his limited medical knowledge that kills them. Hormone-Addled Teenager: Squirrel. Partially why Quentin becomes obsessed with him. Though his flirtation with a group of girls his age enrages Quentin, making him all the more eager to lobotomize the boy. Yes, long run on sentences, frequent use of "&," sections that are just "I said & then he said & I said" without the dialogue and words capitalized with the intention of showing our narrator's thought process, but frequently seemed to just be randomly selected words because why the hell not? Add in a couple of references to the character being aroused (frequently… very, very frequently) and that's the book in a nutshell. Folger Shakespeare Library". Penfaulkner.org. Archived from the original on April 13, 2011 . Retrieved June 14, 2011.about contemporary American society. His effort to create zombies is derived from the irreversible psychosurgical procedure that was routinely performed during the 1940's and 50's, before the invention of powerful psychotropic Mr. T__ asks questions like rolling off a tape. YES SIR I tell him NO SIR. I am employed. On a regular basis now. Dr. E__ is the one who prescribes the medication. Asks me questions to get me to talk. My tongue gets in the way of my talking. Dr. B__ throws out a question as he says to get the guys talking. They’re bullshit masters. I admire them. I sit inside my clothes staring at my shoes. My whole body is a numb tongue.