The (Other) You: Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates New York: Ecco, 2021 288 Pages From a master of the short story, a collection that considers the consequences of the choices we make. In this […]
A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork
By Joyce Carol Oates New York: Ecco, 2021 288 Pages From a master of the short story, a collection that considers the consequences of the choices we make. In this […]
By Joyce Carol Oates New York: Mysterious Press, 2020402 Pages Joyce Carol Oates, the “grand mistress of ghoulishness” (Publishers Weekly), showcases her mastery in four deeply disturbing novellas that will […]
A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society. Night. […]
The Glass Ark is a bibliography of works by and about Joyce Carol Oates, covering her entire career, from the 1950’s to the present.
As the editor and publisher of the distinguished literary magazine Ontario Review and of Ontario Review Press, and as the husband of novelist Joyce Carol Oates, Ray led a rich and full life devoted not only to his work and his marriage but also to numerous friends in the Princeton area and beyond.
First published in Epoch, Fall 1966. Included in Prize Stories: O Henry Award Winners (1968), and The Best American Short Stories (1967). Introduction to “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Why is “Where Are You […]
See also: Recently published stories, essays, poems, and other articles by Joyce Carol Oates. Extenuating Circumstances (stories) By Joyce Carol Oates Expected publication date: May 10, 2022 Babysitter (novel) By […]
Time was passing in an unnatural manner.
One or two of these stories are as good as James’s and Conrad’s. None of them is conventional or commercial, the 25 of them add up to a magnificent achievement.
These are small, hard gems, full of the same rich emotion and startling observation that readers of Oates’s fiction have come to expect.
But no man joined Marilyn Monroe in her disguise as one of us in the Strand. No Leading Man, no dark prince. Like us (we began to see) this Marilyn Monroe required no man.
Because when asked what you were rebelling against you said with wonderful disdain, What’ve you got?
Because that was our answer too, that we had not such words to utter.
The Hungry Ghosts crackles with tension and wit, and its subjects—the foibles of academia and the literati—are tantalizing.
Here are five splendid stories, imagining five major American authors on the verge of death each rooted in biographical facts and presented in the authors own particular style that are harrowing, heartfelt, incredibly moving, that cut to the depths of the psyche, probing with such laser-lean, honed prose that it’ll take your breath away.
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published as the introduction to Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers, Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. In the old days, […]
New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers Edited by Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye […]
A Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates From a master “mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds” (New York Times Book Review), comes an eerie, […]
By Joyce Carol Oates Illustrated by Dave Mottram Cherie loves being the only kitty in the Smith family . . . until the day a new kitten arrives. The New […]
By Joyce Carol Oates INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MANIAC Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, […]
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in The New Yorker, July 28, 2015 For I will consider my Cat Cherie for she is the very apotheosis of Cat-Beauty which is […]
A novel by Joyce Carol Oates “A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it […]
A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates A dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. “Time […]
I was on suicide watch at the detention center but I would never hang myself with shoelaces!—that’s got to be a joke. I would never hang myself in any way, it’s an ugly death. I’ve been close to strangled and I know.