EDWARD HOPPER’S “11 A.M.,” 1926
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in the New Yorker, August 27, 2012 She’s naked yet wearing shoes. Wants to think nude. And happy in her body. Though it’s a fleshy […]
PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award
Joyce Carol Oates will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN Center USA at their annual awards festival on October 22, 2012.
Joyce Carol Oates Wins Mailer Prize
Joyce Carol Oates has won the 2012 Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement. The Mailer Prize, given by the Norman Mailer Center, is awarded to writers whose work over the years […]
Gore Vidal
Joyce Carol Oates on Gore Vidal’s Lincoln: Prodigious Gore Vidal … so kaleidoscopic in his interests, his energies and the remarkable range of his talents, the Vidal voice is as readily discernible in the comic masterpiece “Myra Breckinridge” as in the somber meditation upon mortality “Two Sisters,” as fully present in those critical essays in which, out of habit perhaps, […]
Celestial Timepiece 