On Demand
Survival Kit
Sunday, February 15, 2004
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Joyce Carol OatesJoyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates wrote her first novel at the age of 15, but it was rejected by publishers who felt it was too bleak. That didn’t discourage her; she’s written over a hundred works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays, all of which examine the dark underbelly of American life. She won the National Book Award for her novel Them, and critical acclaim for such works as A Garden of Earthly Delights, We Were The Mulvaneys, Blonde, Black Water and Rape: A Love Story. If I listed all her books we wouldn’t have time for an interview, so let’s find out what she’s chosen to put in her survival kit.
HER LIST:
1. Piano (baby grand), music books & CDs (Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmanioff)
2. Black American history materials including the 500-page FREEDOM: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE 1840-Present. Text by Manning Marable & Leith Mullings. Phaidon Press.
3. materials about Joe Louis including as many of his 71 fights that are on film/video (writing project)
4. journal / notebooks & pens
5. two cats, Reynard & Cherie
6. bird book & camera
7. treadmill
8. books of color plates: Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe (writing project)
9. CDs: Chopin: Preludes Beethoven: Sonata #8, C Minor, (Pathetique)
1. Piano (baby grand), music books & CDs (Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmanioff)
2. Black American history materials including the 500-page FREEDOM: A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE 1840-Present. Text by Manning Marable & Leith Mullings. Phaidon Press.
3. materials about Joe Louis including as many of his 71 fights that are on film/video (writing project)
4. journal / notebooks & pens
5. two cats, Reynard & Cherie
6. bird book & camera
7. treadmill
8. books of color plates: Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe (writing project)
9. CDs: Chopin: Preludes Beethoven: Sonata #8, C Minor, (Pathetique)