Professor Joseph O'Neill Profiled in the New York Times

Joseph O'Neill, distinguished visiting professor of written arts at Bard College, was profiled in the New York Times Book Review. His new novel Godwin, a tale of family and migration, is an international adventure story in which O’Neill investigates the legacy of colonialism in the context of family love, global capitalism, and the dreaming individual. The Times writes that his “sharp and slippery new novel” also showcases the tendency of his fiction to incorporate his real-world interests in unexpected ways; in Godwin, that turns out to be soccer. “I have spent years of my life playing or watching or dreaming about ball games,” O’Neill told the Times. “I’m also an intuitive, somewhat dreamy writer. So sports seep into, and sometimes saturate, my fiction. Many writers are like that—we have arbitrary, pre-creative obsessions that emerge as our subject matter, whether we like it or not. I’m stuck with sports.”

Post Date: 06-03-2024