{"product_id":"uncensored-views-reviews-9780060775575","title":"Uncensored: Views \u0026 (Re)Views","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUncensored: Views \u0026amp; (Re)views\u003c\/em\u003e is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since \u003cem\u003e(Woman) Writer: Occasions \u0026amp; Opportunities\u003c\/em\u003e. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOates states in her preface, \"In the essay or review, the dynamic of storytelling is hidden but not absent,\" and indeed, the voice of these \"conversations\" echoes the voice of her fiction in its dramatic directness, ethical perspective, and willingness to engage the reader in making critical judgments. Under the heading \"Not a Nice Person,\" such controversial figures as Sylvia Plath, Patricia Highsmith, and Muriel Spark are considered without sentimentality or hyperbole; under \"Our Contemporaries, Ourselves,\" such diversely talented figures as William Trevor, E. L. Doctorow, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Connelly, Alice Sebold, Mary Karr, Anne Tyler, and Ann Patchett are examined. In sections of \"homages\" and \"revisits,\" Oates writes with enthusiasm and clarity of such cultural icons as Emily Brontë, Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, Balthus, and Muhammad Ali (\"The Greatest\"); after a lapse of decades, she (re)considers the first film version of Bram Stoker's \u003cem\u003eDracula\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmericana\u003c\/em\u003e, Don DeLillo's first novel, as well as the morality of selling private letters and the nostalgic significance of making a pilgrimage to Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough these balanced and illuminating essays we see Oates at the top of her form, engaged with forebears and contemporaries, providing clues to her own creative process: \"For prose is a kind of music: music creates 'mood.' What is argued on the surface may be but ripples rising from a deeper, subtextual urgency.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51997924393234,"sku":"9780060775575","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52515efa-2e82-4de9-86e7-84d9409ee582.jpg?v=1770136535","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/uncensored-views-reviews-9780060775575","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}