Links for East Side Readers
Reviews
All The Varieties Of Love And Madness, On Display In 'Carthage' (NPR)
Review | Books | The Guardian
Kirkus
USA Today by Charles Finch
Christian Science Monitor by Yvonne Zipp
New York Times by Dwight Garner
New York Times Book Review by Liesl Schillinger
St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Amanda St. Amand
Washington Post by Dan Chaon
Three Guys One Book
At The Dock
Is it a "war novel"?
Or a post-war novel? ** very interesting ideas here
At AllReaders.com
Interviews
Joyce Carol Oates discusses Carthage with Isaac Fitzgerald (video)
L'Hermite
Huffington Post Brief
At Salon
J.C. Oates interviews herself (2013)
The New Yorker: A Video Visit with Joyce Carol Oates (2013)
Sites
Research site at U. San Francisco
Links from her Speaking Agent
Joyce Carol Oates Goes Home Again
9 Ways Reading Joyce Carol Oates Will Make You Feel More Powerful
Tweeting and FBooking
Wikipedia biography
Carthage, NY
Carthage, North Africa
Zeno of Elea
Zeno's Paradoxes
Cressida (classical)
Juliet
Punic Wars
Ascending and Descending
M.C. Escher works and biography
PTSD in returning veterans; and here, for example
1 comment:
Could not find a reading group guide, so here are some questions I have:
Did it matter that she sometimes looked like a boy?
Did her father really love her, the way it seemed in first chapter?
Did Brad secretly love her back?
Why was Brad's mother so awful?
Which parts are realistic & what did you just not buy?
Talk about narrative structure. Helpful? Confusing? Why so much detail?
Epiphany in death chamber. Moment of choice? Right at the edge? Why was this the turning point? Was it an easy decision to return? How could she not know.... esp. once she got computer access.
Was her family always a mess or only after her disappearance?
What about poor Brad? Hero or villain?
Juliet symbolic?
Can you go home again? Why would you want to?
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