{"id":18047,"date":"2025-03-10T14:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/long-live-joyce-carol-oates-twitter-account-the-only-pure-space-left-on-this-hell-site\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T13:37:42","slug":"long-live-joyce-carol-oates-twitter-account-the-only-pure-space-left-on-this-hell-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/long-live-joyce-carol-oates-twitter-account-the-only-pure-space-left-on-this-hell-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live Joyce Carol Oates\u2019 Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 86-year-old author\u2019s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature \u2013 with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>See more from our column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/series\/internet-wormhole\">Internet wormhole<\/a>, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the centre of most things is a skeleton. So it is for the online infamy of Joyce Carol Oates. In 2021, the award-winning novelist delivered her most significant contribution to literature: a diabolical <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoyceCarolOates\/status\/1444301344878342150\">tweet ruminating on the existentialism of Halloween<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, the 86-year-old, five-time Pulitzer finalist used her platform on X (formerly Twitter) to share a photo of an impressive, American-style Halloween decoration, which featured dozens of plastic skeletons clambering up the facade of a house. \u201cYou can always recognise a place in which no one is experiencing much or any grief for a lost loved one,\u201d she wrote. \u201cEveryone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/mar\/11\/long-live-joyce-carol-oates-twitter-account-the-only-pure-space-left-on-this-hell-site\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bc5cf7759e8b6a41b4fe790b92122c0b59ebe291\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c613d3d012c24500226a3b26c337dfb7\" title=\"Long live Joyce Carol Oates\u2019 Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site\" \/>The 86-year-old author\u2019s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature \u2013 with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot<br \/>\nSee more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet<br \/>\nAt the centre of most things is a skeleton. So it is for the online infamy of Joyce Carol Oates. In 2021, the award-winning novelist delivered her most significant contribution to literature: a diabolical tweet ruminating on the existentialism of Halloween.<br \/>\nFor the uninitiated, the 86-year-old, five-time Pulitzer finalist used her platform on X (formerly Twitter) to share a photo of an impressive, American-style Halloween decoration, which featured dozens of plastic skeletons clambering up the facade of a house. \u201cYou can always recognise a place in which no one is experiencing much or any grief for a lost loved one,\u201d she wrote. \u201cEveryone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 86-year-old author\u2019s social feed might be her greatest contribution to literature \u2013 with philosophical musings on everything from US politics to an infected foot See more from our column Internet wormhole, where writers share their favourite corner of the internet At the centre of most things is a skeleton. So it is for the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/long-live-joyce-carol-oates-twitter-account-the-only-pure-space-left-on-this-hell-site\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long live Joyce Carol Oates\u2019 Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}