Art of the Story Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway, (Paperback)

from CarlosMcRey

Joyce Carol Oates has reimagined the final days of five important American authors: Poe, Dickinson, Twain, Henry James and Hemingway. The stories of Twain, James and Hemingway are the ones that stick closer to the historical record, while those of Poe and Dickinson take flight into the fantastic....

from nmele

Interesting reading this exercise in virtuosity and speculation--Oates imagines the last days of five American authors--Poe, Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Hemingway, each written in a style that seems to be that of the author-subject. More interesting is that each story is also about lov...

from hardlyhardy

Great writers do not necessarily lead great lives, and the end of their lives can be as miserable as anybody's. "Wild Nights!," the 2008 book of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, examines the last days of five of the greatest American writers. Although she writes fiction, Oates did her homework...

from hemlokgang

Amazing, truly creative talent. Joyce Carol Oates is able to be brash and subtle, wild and tame as she imagines the last days of some of our most beloved authors. It is shocking, thought-provoking, and left me with a great deal of curiosity and ambivalence. Overall it is a treatise on accepting o...

from lahochstetler

This short story collection examines the last days and nights of five prolific American writers, from Poe to Hemingway. Together these five tales describe five eminient writers on the brink of despair and madness that culminates in their deaths. The stories vary in the extent to which they depart...