Joyce Carol Oates: The Man Without a Shadow

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Joyce Carol Oates raises questions about memory – ethics, what it means to love, identity, and the ability to engage, and takes us on a trip down memory lane with a reading from a previous memoir recounting her favorite bad-for-you childhood foods.

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0:00.0	podcast listen to the organist the culturally omnivorous intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the believer
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1:02.0	Today, my guest, and it's my honor, is Joyce Carol Oates.
1:07.0	I've known Joyce Carol Oates since I was 17 years old.
1:12.0	Now, that's not continuous knowledge, but it is a very profound memory.
1:19.4	And her newest novel, The Man Without a Shadow, is about a man who loses access.
1:27.6	He has had a form of encephalitis, yes, that's inflamed a part of his brain, so his current
1:38.5	memory is inaccessible to him.
1:41.3	He loses it within 70 seconds. His name is Elehue Hoops.
1:49.0	Yes.
1:50.0	And it's about his relationship with a woman named Margo Sharp, who is a very well-praised entering graduate student in the program that's studying the
2:10.5	case of E H. L.U. Hoops. And I've had a theory, it's long-lasting, that if you read the work of Joyce Carol Oates,
2:25.2	as it appears, as arcs of stories, arcs of novel, story, essay, poem, that you'll start to see patterns forming of what interests
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