Posted on 10/05/08
Death, where is thy sting? Joyce Carol Oates has it
WILD NIGHTS!Stories About the Last Daysof Poe, Dickinson, Twain,James and HemingwayBy Joyce Carol OatesHarperCollins, 238 pages, $26.95Given that Joyce Carol Oates has published at least 20 volumes of short fiction - and more than 30 novels - readers might expect Wild Nights! to show the symptoms of creative exhaustion. Not so. Though uneven in quality, these stories imagining the last days of a handful of major American writers display the unstoppable energy and high-beam intelligence of vintage Oates.
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