Dear Husband, : Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates A gripping and moving new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which reimagines the meaning of family—by unexpected, often startling means. With the unflinching candor […]
Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the […]
American Appetites
By Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates moves into new territory in the first novel she has written in a contemporary setting since Solstice. American Appetites takes us into affluent, upper-class suburbia […]
Thanksgiving
Spooning stuffing rich with spices into the bird’s scooped-out body, sewing the hole shut, basting with melted fat, roasting. As dead-clammy meat turns to edible meat. As revulsion turns to appetite.
Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
By Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, poet, dramatist and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows yet another aspect of her unbounded […]
Lives of the Twins
By joyce Carol Oates (writing as Rosamond Smith) Molly Marks is a very pretty young woman who has never been able to get her life together. She has taken hundreds […]
Joyce Carol Oates on Stephen King
Princeton University, 2016 It’s an honor and a pleasure to be introducing Stephen King to a Princeton audience, for the second time. Stephen came to Princeton for the first time […]
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates Ten suspenseful stories explore with chilling accuracy the ways in which evil enters our lives: In “Hi! Howya Doin!” an intrusive jogger meets with an abrupt […]
Marriages and Infidelities: Short Stories
By Joyce Carol Oates MARRIAGES AND INFIDELITIES is Joyce Carol Oates’s fourth volume of short stories. In this collection, Miss Oates, who has been called “the best young novelist in […]
DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to “illuminate the mind’s most disturbing corners” (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her […]
Celestial Timepiece 