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 […]
A Visual History of Celestial Timepiece
Book Jacket Images
Photography Session —in memory of Jim Jacobs You died on Wednesday. On Friday I’m hauled by limousine to be photographed for a magazine feature, Charles Street near Varick, a garbagey […]
Awards & Honors
Full Lists of Awards & Honors: Awards for Individual Works Works in Award Anthologies Career Awards Recent Awards & Honors Pushcart Prize XLIX, 2025: “Mick & Minn” Prix Fitzgerald, 2024 winner: […]
Career Awards
2023 Taobuk International Award for Literary Excellence A recognition of moral, artistic and professional value, the Taobuk Awards were established in 2014 and are given annually to high-profile personalities in the […]
Works In Award Anthologies
The Best American Essays 2016: “The Lost Sister: An Elegy” 2000: “They All Just Went Away” : (The Best American Essays of the Century) 1999: “After Amnesia” 1996: “They All […]
Awards for Individual Works
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award For that work of fiction published during the preceding twelve months, which, although not a commercial success, is […]
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