"Where You Are Going, Where You Have Been, Whether You Are In a Relationship and If It Is Complicated or Not"

Joyce Carol Oates. Love her or hate her, you have to admit that she is a force to be reckoned with in American fiction.



According to that venerable source Wikipedia, she has written over fifty novels. Wait, what? That doesn't even include all of the other types of writing that she has done.

I'm more in the love camp. I admire anyone who puts that much stuff out there into the world, especially when some, a lot of that stuff, is really good.

Her latest book, A Widow's Story, is a memoir about the sudden and unexpected death of her husband.

But this post isn't about Joyce Carol Oates. Or it is, and it isn't. This post is about a recent story that parodies (or modernizes) one of Oates' best known stories, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" If you haven't read that piece, check it out. It's a classic.

Today's piece, "Where You Are Going, Where You Have Been, Whether You Are In a Relationship and If It Is Complicated or Not" by Danny Pelletier can be found at MonkeyBicycle. Read. Laugh. Enjoy.

--Lori