Joyce Carol Oates Ignites Twitter Controversy

By Jason Boog 

Novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote a series of controversial Twitter posts about Egypt and Islam today, prompting many writers to respond.

Below, we’ve collected her Twitter posts and some of the responses from writers around the globe in a Storify post. What do you think?

As of this 3:30 p.m. EST writing, Oates had 56,639 followers on Twitter. Our Storify collection follows below…