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Joyce Carol Oates born on June 16, year 1938 is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and since then she has published 58 novels, several plays and short stories, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels Black Water, What I Lived For, and Blonde, as well as her short story collections The Wheel of Love and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories were each shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize. She has received many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them, two O. Henry Awards, National Humanities Medal, and Jerusalem Prize in year 2019.

Oates taught at the Princeton University from years 1978 to 2014 and is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor Emeritus in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. She is a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short stories.

Oates was elected to American Philosophical Society in the year 2016.

Oates met Raymond J. Smith, a fellow graduate student, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and they married in 1961. Smith went on to become a professor of 18th-century literature and later an editor and publisher. Oates described the partnership as “a marriage of like-minded people…” and “a very cooperative and resourceful marriage”.

Smith died of complications from pneumonia on February 18, 2008, and Oates was deeply affected by his death. In April year 2008, Oates wrote to an interviewer: “Since the unexpected death of my husband, I had very little energy My marriage, my love for my husband, seems to have come first in my life, most good than my writing”. Other than his death, the future of my writing doesn’t really interest me at the moment.”

After six months of nearly suicidal grief over Smith, Oates met Charles Gross, a professor in Princeton’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, at a dinner party at her home. In early 2009, Oates and Gross married. On April 13, 2019, Oates announced via her Twitter account that Gross had died at the age of 83.

As a chronicler, Oates began keeping a detailed diary in 1973, documenting her personal and literary life. it eventually grew to “more than 4,000 single-spaced typed pages.” In 2008, Oates said that she “had moved away from keeping a formal diary” and instead kept copies of her emails.

As of 1999, Oates continued to run, of which she has written: “Ideally, the writer-runner runs through the countryside and urban landscapes of his fiction as a ghost in a real-world setting.” As he walks, Oates mentally visualizes the scenes from her novels and solves the structural problems in already written drafts; She seeded her novel You Must Remember This (1987) on the fly when she “looked up and saw the ruins of a railroad bridge” that reminded her of “a mythical town in upstate New York in just the right place.”

Oates was a member of the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1997 to 2016. She is an honorary member of the Simpson Literary Project, which awards the $50,000 annual Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Literary Award to a mid-career writer. . She has been the project’s artist-in-residence several of times.

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A Netflix film coming soon starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson

In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reinvents the inner, poetic and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker: the girl, the woman, the fateful celebrity and the idolized blonde that the world knew as Marilyn Monroe.

In a surprisingly intimate and rich voice, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an iconic American artist deeply conflicted and driven and lost. A powerful portrayal of Hollywood myth and the harrowing reality of an extraordinary woman, Blonde is a stirring epic that celebrates the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of 20th-century America’s great star.

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I was reading this in anticipation of the Netflix film adapted from this book due for release in September 2022. This is a fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe’s life, taking real elements of her life, like the fact that her mother was institutionalized and thus raised in foster care, his various marriages and affairs, and mixed them up with things the author made up .

The author attempts to portray the fact that Marilyn and Norma Jean (written in the book Jeane) were almost separate personalities and that Norma Jeane had to essentially “summon” Marilyn in order to outgrow her film roles and perform in public, which is her infamous Declaration declared unreliability. In real life, she was known for making comments like she had to “give” people Marilyn in order for Marilyn to be a performance to perform.

The author extended that to Marilyn as a person who hated Norma Jeane and who never wanted to be named in real life. The book also addresses his prescription drug abuse and his own mental illness.

The book is very long, about 730 pages, and not always the easiest to read. It covers her entire life, from the age of a year or two to her death in 1962. Interestingly, the author let Marilyn know she was dying and danced with her that she might have killed herself and might have murdered herself. . There is a lot of sex in the book and if some of the material that was in the middle of the book makes it into the film it will definitely get an NC-17 rating.

In general, you have to take the book with tweezers. It is not an actual biography, as the author is upfront about, and provides a bibliography for those looking for non-fiction devoted to his life. She definitely has enough real elements that are known about her life, but unless you’ve actually read about her or watched documentaries about her life, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s made up. Interesting insight into his life, but not to be taken too seriously.

Americans had a love affair with our original very sexy blonde icon, the Marilyn Monroe. Even Billie Eilish channels Marilyn these days. After her untimely death in the year 1962, interest in Marilyn’s life story peaked again in the year 1974 when her unfinished autobiography, My Story, was published. Easy and straightforward to read from start to finish, the book details her constant battles with the studio bigwigs who kept trying unsuccessfully to get her to bed. She called them all “wolves”.

Joyce Carol Oates writes the fictional biography Blonde (2000) in which JCO extensively examines the persona of Norma Jean Baker and the icon “Marilyn Monroe” and then tells their story with great imagination and psychological understanding. The fundamental question about Blonde and all of us who are obsessed with “Marilyn Monroe” is: why do Americans still love this busty, flirtatious woman with the smoky voice and ample hips?

Norma Jean as “Marilyn” created her own style of fame, and her films showcased her casually flaunted sexuality with her apparent inattention to the ruckus she caused by simply walking onto the set. Bus Stop (1956), Some Like It Hot (1958), Let’s Make Love (1960) with Yves Montand, her co-star and apparently her lover at the time, and her last film The Misfits (1961) while she was filming The Marriage broke up with Arthur Miller, they are probably the most famous.

She was ambitious, and the characters in her films clearly showed that ambition. Michelle Williams was great as the Marilyn opposite Kenneth Branaugh in the My Week with Marilyn. I’m looking forward to Ana de Armas as Marilyn in JCO’s Blond script (not finished as of this writing).

Joyce Carol Oates masterfully reveals the innate abilities Norma Jean bestowed on each of the characters in the film “Marilyn Monroe” and shows how she embodied her specific role as an archetypal character, each very different, each very easily recognizable as a living personality. Joyce Carol Oates also reveals the inner character of each of Norma Jean’s three husbands, the clueless young man, the brutal ex-athlete and the shy intellectual. Everyone ended up abusing her.

Norma Jean’s slow descent into severe abuse of prescription drugs (amphetamines, barbiturates, tranquilizers) and alcohol did not help as she began to suffer from insomnia, memory loss, lethargy and poor concentration. In fact, the studio has access to Dr. FeelGood relieved for recipes Norma Jean (and other studio actors) relied on to manage the stress and anxiety they experienced during filming. Our pop icons of the 1950s paid a heavy price for the possible loss of their health due to drug and alcohol addiction: Elvis, Brando, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and others, and Norma’s “Marilyn Monroe” Jean.

In the introduction to his Author’s Note to Blonde, written shortly before 2000, Joyce Carol Oates characterizes his monumental body of novels as “synecdoche” (usually the specific), which among other things clearly aims to refer to the experience Norma Jean had with the The Studio System and his horrific sexual exploitation of pretty young women aspiring to star in the films by the men who had absolute power over them. Joyce Carol Oates anticipates the MeToo movement and Harvey Weinstein’s revelations by more than a decade.

There are graphic scenes in the novel of such exploitation and the approval of the others, including older women, who hold the positions in the studio. System. Everyone knew, but no one whistled. At the time, the only way to overcome this institutional exploitation was to become such a popular star yourself that the studio had to bend to her will. That is exactly what Norma Jean has achieved. She paved the way for generations of beautiful and talented actresses to practice their craft without succumbing to the garish and pathetic lust of powerful studio executives.

In her book Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates creates a masterpiece of introspection. Through Oates’ description of Monroe’s life, one can at least begin to understand how Oates sees the inner workings of Monroe’s thought patterns.

Oates seems to project the image of a “natural” actress, defined by the roles she plays. But interestingly, while she can play a role as if it were her real life, it is her real life that is destructive to her, and it seems as if Marilyn has no real personality of her own, but actually lives vicariously through her. the roles of the characters he played.

Additionally, Oates is able to pour in a very graphic description of the film business, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, when female actresses were exploited in a way that today would clearly qualify as outrageous sexual harassment, although it probably is some version of it or a other of the same type of behavior is exhibited in Hollywood even in the 21st century.

Once again, Joyce demonstrates her ability to penetrate a person’s mind and infuse that person’s introspection into the pages she writes. To illustrate this, Oates puts this thought in the mind of young Marilyn (then Norma Jean): “…because with film eyes, aesthetics assumes the authority of ethics. To be less than beautiful is sad, but to be intentionally less than beautiful is immoral.”

Thus, Norma Jean states that beauty and looks are everything and that it is her incredible vivacity, her amazingly translucent existence and her incredibly sensitive taking on the role of Monroe to become one of the most famous and talented actresses of all time. But along with that fame came a terrible price, which Oates aptly describes as Monroe’s fundamental struggle with life and what he wanted from it. Marilyn probably never really knew what she was up to wanted to live, but she certainly left a legacy for all to see.

Like virtually all of Oates’ books, this one takes the reader deep into the character’s mind and lets them understand how outrageous their behavior is because the reader is in the character’s imagination and feeling that character’s reactions. While Oates is obviously speculating about the exact conversations Marilyn was having with herself, Oates has the ability to capture and extrapolate what is likely a significant part of her characters’ thought process. If you’re a fan of Joyce Carol Oates, you can’t miss this book.

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