RE: JCO: RE: Talent vs Experience

Hi Steve,

I'm not sure she meant to be entirely accurate about LA in Blonde. I remember
hearing or reading an interview where she mentioned having purposely changed
some of the details of Marilyn's life because it was a work of fiction.

Tanya

Selon jandsmerritt <jandsmerritt@earthlink.net>:

> Hi Everyone:
>
> I notice that because of Mailer's unfortunate phrasing, we haven't addressed
> the underlying question of how far talent (in any artist at all) can go to
> make up for lack of experience.
>
> JCO of course has managed to write about an enormous variety of people in an
> enormous variety of situations. She does her homework (though I noticed,
> when reading "Blonde", the one book I've read by her where I'm familiar with
> any of the settings, that she did get occasionally get a few details wrong,
> but still she did well for someone who's never lived in L.A.), and that's a
> big help, but I think she also proves that empathy and imagination in
> general can take you a long way. On the other hand, she certainly goes back
> to upstate New York and to the 1950s a lot.
>
> Steve
>

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tone Clusters: The Joyce Carol Oates discussion group

To send a message to the group, email jco@usfca.edu
To subscribe, email majordomo@usfca.edu: subscribe jco
To unsubscribe, email majordomo@usfca.edu: unsubscribe jco