anyone see this yet?  some of Oates's stuff in recent years has been a tad
odd, and this sounds odd too:

*Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James,
and Hemingway* by Joyce Carol Oates

(I'd love to the the 6th at that dinner party!)

Harold K. Bush, Ph.D
Saint Louis University