In an interview with Elaine Kalman Naves of The Montreal Gazette (13.04.2012), Joyce Carol Oates, who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, discusses the pain of bereavement following the death of her first husband, Raymond Smith, and underscores the universality of grief: “The experience of becoming a widow was devastating – but also illuminating. I felt that I had learned so much, but that most of it was inexpressible, except in highly detailed, psychologically graphic prose. I’d wanted to communicate with others who have lost husbands, wives, parents, children – it was the first time that I’d felt that an experience of my own was a universal experience”
In an interview with Elaine Kalman Naves of The Montreal Gazette (13.04.2012), Joyce Carol Oates, the distinguished American novelist who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 7 of Interlitq, discusses the pain of bereavement following the death of her first husband, Raymond Smith, and underscores the universality of grief: “The experience of becoming a widow was devastating – but also illuminating. I felt that I had learned so much, but that most of it was inexpressible, except in highly detailed, psychologically graphic prose. I’d wanted to communicate with others who have lost husbands, wives, parents, children – it was the first time that I’d felt that an experience of my own was a universal experience”.
