Michael Krasny Interviews JCO about The Sacrifice
Michael Krasny interviews Joyce Carol Oates about her novel The Sacrifice for KQED’s Forum. Identity politics suggests that we can only write about existing inside our own skin; the existentials […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Building a novel is like building a cathedral”
From the Brian Lehrer Show: Joyce Carol Oates’ Take on Twana Brawley Case
“Us” and “them”
Eric K. Anderson reviews JCO’s novel The Sacrifice in Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies, and notes the references back to a much earlier novel. This new novel has a natural predecessor in Oates’s National Book Award-winning novel them (1969). In this earlier novel the struggles of a lower middle class family are seen as running parallel to and becoming entangled with the 1967 […]
Celestial Timepiece 