Remainders

In describing an intuitive process native to novel writers, the author of Invisible Writer (Johnson, 1999, p.9) quotes American master of psychological realism, Joyce Carol Oates.

Somehow, without knowing what I did, without knowing, in fact, that I was doing anything extraordinary at all, I had written my mother’s story by way of a work of prose fiction I had invented.

The author of Invisible Writer says on the same page:

What Joyce did not mention is that a similar instance of her novelistic ‘intuition’ had occurred almost twenty years earlier. In A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), she had written a scene that also bears a striking resemblance to the circumstances of her grandfather’s murder.

Novelistic intuition. I’m curious to know what phrase will be coined to cover the writerly source of this short story, especially because of this. (Mrs. Oates's apology.)

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A Research Fellow at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University and the Lokahi Foundation in London and author of a book to be published by Oxford University Press says he is “barred [...] from entering the United States to pursue an academic career.” (link)

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Mr. Salman Rushdie has sold his literary papers to Emory University and according to The Guardian newspaper, his "decision to sell his literary papers to an American university should be applauded for highlighting a lamentable aspect of UK government policy." (link)

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If you google, oops… [Note to self: To be on the safe side of the legal question, thall shalt not use Google as a verb (link)]. If you look for a Mr. Smiley III, you will learn that he is a thorn in the stacks of many libraries. (link)

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Jeffrey Toobin interviews the Honorable Stephen G. Breyer. (video)

Posted by Toni Urquhart