I did write a Phryne story set in for a collection called True Detective , which had a fictional detective solving a real crime.
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It was the Somerton Beach murder, as it happens. Phryne aged very well having worked for the French resistance during the war. She didnt like Dior's New Look, however. It was a home birth with a midwife. Her father was drunk throughout. Why did you decide to keep Lin Chung throughout more than one novel unlike Phryne's other lovers? They're a little extra mystery for the alert reader.
Not only do they provide a smug glow for those who recognise the quote, but they refer to something in the chapter, usually only after one has read it. Like a cryptic crossword. I love your Phryne Fisher books! The only thing i share with Phryne apart from gender is extreme stubbornness.
I am persoanlly a lot like Dot.
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Though I do love speed and have, for example, jumped out of a plane with parachute though I never walked on the wings , flown a Tiger Moth, fired a pistol, etc. Why did you want Phryne to be such a clotheshorse and a siren - unusual for a detective? She isnt anyone's clothes horse, if by that you mean the person who wears the clothes and has no other personality. She likes fashion and the fashions of the time suit her perfectly.
And I love designing her gowns But Phryne is a hero, just like James Bond or the Saint, but with fewer product endorsements and a better class of lovers. I decided to try a female hero and made her as free as a male hero, to see what she would do. MInd you, at that time I only thought there would be two books. What will happen to Phryne in the s during the time of the Great Depression in Australia?
Phryne has sensible investments, and in any case the Depression didn't really BITE here until 32, and I have no interntion of letting Phryne get to When the luscious Lin Chung had his ear chopped off when he was kidnapped, he was fitted with a false ear. And my life really changed after that. Oates retired from teaching in and was honored at a retirement party in November of that year. Joyce Carol Oates has taught creative writing at UC Berkeley for the past few years, her last course being in Spring Oates was raised Catholic but is now an atheist. Oates self identifies as a liberal, and supports gun control.
Oates opposed the shuttering of cultural institutions on Trump's inauguration day as a protest against the president, stating "This would only hurt artists. Rather, cultural institutions should be sanctuaries for those repelled by the inauguration.
Oates is a regular poster on Twitter with her account given to her by her publisher Harper Collins. Oates stated in her criticized tweet, "Where Oates defended her statements on Twitter saying, "I don't consider that I really said anything that I don't feel and I think that sometimes the crowd is not necessarily correct.
You know, Kierkegaard said, 'The crowd is a lie. Oates writes in longhand , [42] working from "8 till 1 every day, then again for two or three hours in the evening. In a journal entry written in the s, Oates sarcastically addressed her critics, writing, "So many books!
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Obviously JCO has a full career behind her, if one chooses to look at it that way; many more titles and she might as well Yet I have more stories to tell, and more novels […] ". How does one judge a new book by Oates when one is not familiar with most of the backlist? Where does one start? Several publications have published lists of what they deem the best Joyce Carol Oates books, designed to help introduce readers to the author's daunting oeuvre.
Oates met Raymond J. Smith , a fellow graduate student, at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and they married in Oates described the partnership as "a marriage of like minds…" and "a very collaborative and imaginative marriage. As a diarist, Oates began keeping a detailed journal in , documenting her personal and literary life; it eventually grew to "more than 4, single-spaced typewritten pages". Oates's spouse Raymond Smith died of complications from pneumonia on February 18, , and the death impacted Oates profoundly. Set beside his death, the future of my writing scarcely interests me at the moment.
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This section needs expansion with: You can help by adding to it. Joyce Carol Oates bibliography. Winner [ edit ] Henry Award — "In the Region of Ice" [17] National Book Award for Fiction — them [1] Henry Award — "The Dead" [17] Rea Award for the Short Story Bram Stoker Award for Novel — Zombie Helmerich Distinguished Author Award [51] Prix Femina Etranger — The Falls Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association [55] National Humanities Medal [58] Fernanda Pivano Award Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania [59] Norman Mailer Prize , Lifetime Achievement [60] Stories [ citation needed ].
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Black Water [62] [63] Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Blonde [62] There were some points where I didn't see eye to eye on approaches to the craft, but I still think it was worth looking at where each individual person came from and what their writing shaped to over time and circumstance. I enjoyed hearing from this collection of 20 authors and their insight and advice on the trade. It's a compilation that not only showcases their respective biographical information, accomplishments, publications, and accolades, but also gets into the heart of the reasons why they write, what their process entails, and advice they have for up and coming writers in the industry.
I really appreciated many of the perspectives that I read in here, from Isabel Allende to Walter Mosley.
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Some I didn't really see eye-to-eye with on perspective i. James Frey, but I think given how he approaches the writing industry, that was a given. Meredith Maran did a fantastic job of compiling these 20 accounts and organizing them in an easy to follow format to refer back to. I know one of the reasons I continue coming back to this as a resource is not just for the advice within, but also to look into the works of the authors that I hadn't been exposed to before this book. So it's an informative resource on both the writing profession and something of a writing history for the author's noted here.
