Complicit in Racism
Joyce Carol Oates recalls a racial profiling incident from the 1990’s in light of more recent and tragic events in Ferguson, MO and elsewhere, and relates it to her novel The Sacrifice. […]
Whiteness as Cursed Property in Bellefleur
Karen Gaffney shines a different light on the Bellefleur curse in her article “Whiteness as Cursed Property: An Interdisciplinary Intervention with Joyce Carol Oates’s Bellefleur and Cheryl Harris’s ‘Whiteness as […]
Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
By Greg Johnson New York: Dutton, 1998 492 pages For more than three decades, Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as one of the most significant and enduring writers of […]
A Brief Biography of Joyce Carol Oates
By Greg Johnson Originally published in A Reader’s Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates Copyright © 1996 by Greg Johnson Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an […]
Stories That Define Me
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in the New York Times Book Review, July 11, 1982. Telling stories, I discovered at the age of 3 or 4, is a way of […]
Tavis Smiley: JCO’s “The Sacrifice” and Race in America
Tavis Smiley talks with Joyce Carol Oates about her novel The Sacrifice and race in America, introducing her as “one of the best writers America has ever produced.” See the video interview […]
at City Lights in San Francisco
All writers “write across difference”
All writers “write across difference,” Joyce Carol Oates points out in the New York Times in response to Roxane Gay’s condescending review of The Sacrifce. To the Editor: I am perplexed […]
You Will Get Yours: JCO Reviews Richard Price
Joyce Carol Oates reviews The Whites, by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt. As the sonnet was the quintessential form of the Elizabethan poet, packing distilled and dazzling language into […]
A Portrait of the Writer
It may surprise you, as it did us, to learn that we citizens of the United States have not yet built ourselves a museum to honor our great writers. Luckily, The American […]
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror
In Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror the most intuitive dreamers have been assembled to give us glimpses into these ancient terrors and their whispered warnings. […]
“Building a novel is like building a cathedral”
From the Brian Lehrer Show: Joyce Carol Oates’ Take on Twana Brawley Case
This I Believe: Five Motives for Writing
It is a very self-conscious thing to speak of one’s “credo.” I think that most writers and artists love their work, which of course we don’t consider “work”—exactly. As artists love […]
Her era was over …
When Marilyn Monroe at 35 saw young Audrey Hepburn she knew her era was over; & when Ginzberg heard John Ashbery read, end of Beat era. —@JoyceCarolOates on Twitter
About Celestial Timepiece
Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork is intended to be a resource for students, scholars, and fans of Joyce Carol Oates’s work. Begun as a simple bibliography in August […]
Celestial Timepiece 