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Joan Acocella

Born

in San Francisco, The United States

April 13, 1945

Died

January 07, 2024

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Joan B. Acocella was an American journalist who served as a dance and book critic for The New Yorker.

Acocella received her B.A. in English in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Rutgers University in 1984 with a thesis on the Ballets Russes. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. Acocella was a 2012 Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Acocella has served as the senior critic and reviews editor for Dance Magazine and New York dance critic for the Financial Times. Her writing also appears regularly in the New York Review of Books. She began writing for The New Yorker in 1992 and was appointed dance critic in 1998.

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A Biography of the Wife of Bath, Reviewed

The Wife of Bath, one of the most beloved characters in English literature, asked provocative questions: Why shouldn��t widows remarry? Why must we procreate?

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	Dracula by Bram Stoker, Joan Acocella (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 1,550,717 ratings — published 1897 — 11105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays 4.21 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays 4.03 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism 4.07 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder 3.41 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mark Morris 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psychology of Adjustment & Human Relationships by Joan Acocella, James Calhoun 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancers by Joan Acocella, David Freedberg 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mission to Siam: The Memoirs of Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.”
― Joan Acocella, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

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“Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.”
― Joan Acocella

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“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.”
― Joan Acocella, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

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