JonBenet Cryptobiographer Joyce Carol Oates Doesn't Read In Touch
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Busy: Oates
Frighteningly prolific author Joyce Carol Oates talks to Time Magazine's Andrea Sachs about her latest novel, My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike.
Since the book is a fictionalized take on the murder of JonBenét Ramsey (12 years later and still unsolved), Ms. Sachs asked the author "What do you think of tabloids?" Here's Ms. Oates' response:
I talk about Tabloid Hell in the novel ... Basically, I read the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker ... One doesn't have an unlimited amount of time for reading everything.
According to Time, My Sister is Ms. Oates' 37th novel so we tend to believe her when she says her time is limited.
oates is a snob and a hack; keeps on churning out junk while other writers in last 20 years are the ones who sell better and get their books made into movies. oates will be so forgotten when she's dead---she's barely read even now!
Really, who says?
Off point, but I have to say it - Ms. Oates looks like a mental case.