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, […]
Is Dickens the greatest of English novelists?
Joyce Carol Oates reviews Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin in the New York Review of Books: Is Dickens the greatest of English novelists? Few would contest that he is […]
Dickens’s Night Walks
My favorite prose on the subject [of walking] is Charles Dickens’s “Night Walks,” which he wrote some years after having suffered extreme insomnia that propelled him out into the London streets at night. Written with Dickens’s usual brilliance, this haunting essay seems to hint at more than its words reveal. He associates his terrible night restlessness with what he calls […]
Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
Joyce Carol Oates will receive Oregon State University’s inaugural Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in May. The biennial award is given to a major American author who has created a body of critically acclaimed work and who has – in the tradition of creative writing at OSU – been a dedicated mentor to young writers. The honorarium for the award […]
The Crosswicks Horror: At Last
Admirers of Joyce Carol Oates’s brilliant Gothic novels ( Bellefleur; A Bloodsmoor Romance; Mysteries of Winterthurn; My Heart Laid Bare ) will be pleased to hear that the final book of this thematic series, known for years as “The Crosswicks Horror,” is currently being “revised / recast / rewritten.” The new title is “The Accursed.” View early manuscript images of The Crosswicks Horror (see: […]
Upon the Sweeping Flood at 45
Oates has written many great books, and this one, though not discussed as often as her award-winning novels, is, in my opinion, her best work, and deserves to be mentioned as one of the best collections of stories in the latter half of the twentieth century.
“My Sister, My Love” Wins Award
Joyce Carol Oates’s novel “My Sister, My Love” wins France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne “Madame Figaro.”
Black Dahlia and White Rose: Unofficial Investigation
Joyce Carol Oates’s story, Black Dahlia and White Rose, inspired by the video Game LA Noire. Full story at the UK Telegraph. BLACK DAHLIA & WHITE ROSE: Unofficial Investigation into […]
Remarks on Joyce Carol Oates’s Visit to USF
When Joyce Carol Oates introduced Stephen King to a Princeton audience in 1997, she noted that it’s commonly said that certain people need no introductions. But that, on the contrary, […]
Joyce Carol Oates on shortlist for 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
Joyce Carol Oates’s novel Little Bird of Heaven is one of the ten finalists for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has had nine previous novels on the […]
President Obama Awards National Humanities Medal to Joyce Carol Oates
President Obama awarded the 2010 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to 20 honorees, including Joyce Carol Oates. The National Humanities Medal, inaugurated in 1997, honors individuals or […]
Unethical, Immoral. Crude and Cruel and Unconscionable
On Valentine’s Day, 2011, a well-known critic at a prominent newspaper performed a hatchet-job on Joyce Carol Oates, questioning the reality of her grief, mocking her friendship with Joan Didion, and trivializing the decades-long editorial work of her deceased husband, Raymond J. Smith. How delicately must we tread around this situation?
New Jersey Noir
Joyce Carol Oates will be editing New Jersey Noir, a collection of original crime/ mystery/ psychological suspense stories set in New Jersey to be published by Akashic in their popular noir series.
Celestial Timepiece 