Who's Apologizing Now?
Joyce Carol Oates, yet another author with yet another "explanation".. Jeez Louise, enough already. First it was James Frey and a Million Little Lies, er, Pieces and now JCO.
DP: "Creative writing professor and noted author Joyce Carol Oates publicly apologized Tuesday to those upset by her recent New Yorker short story, "Landfill," a work of fiction that set off a small storm of controversy this week for its resemblance to fact.Joyce Carol Oates, yet another author with yet another "explanation".. Jeez Louise, enough already. First it was James Frey and a Million Little Lies, er, Pieces and now JCO.
"I'm certainly feeling very apologetic and deeply sorry that I inadvertently ... hurt the feelings of these people and just feel sorry about that," Oates said in an interview with The Times of Trenton.
"Landfill," which was published in the Oct. 9 issue of The New Yorker, tells the story of Michigan State University student Hector Campos, Jr., who goes missing for weeks before his remains are found in a Michigan landfill."
