The Poetry of Joyce Carol Oates
Oates’s poetry … forms a body of work on its own merits and does not need to be interpreted only as an adjunct to her novels and short stories, as […]
The Plays of Joyce Carol Oates
In my writing for the theater I always have in mind, as an undercurrent shaping and guiding the surface action, the ancient structure of drama as a sacrificial rite. Drama […]
The Novellas of Joyce Carol Oates
My sense of the novella is that of a rapturously extended prose poem driven by a narrative; the more suspenseful the narrative, the more dreamlike and obsessive the atmosphere of […]
The Nonfiction of Joyce Carol Oates
Essays, articles, memoirs … these forms are wrongly considered unimaginative, or, in any case, considered somehow less significant than the imaginative writer’s ‘real’ work. As if one does not speak […]
The Anthologies of Joyce Carol Oates
Isn’t the implicit promise of an anthology that it will, or aspires to, present something different, unexpected? How ironic, it seemed to me, yet, perhaps, how symbolic, that in our […]
The Works of Joyce Carol Oates
A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America.
The Young Adult & Children’s Books of Joyce Carol Oates
Young adults do change rapidly; they are enormously impressionable, and subject to influences both good and bad. In this genre, I would never involve adolescent characters in the sort of […]
“Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die”
Songwriter and Novelist Ben Arthur wrote and recorded a song answering a poem by Joyce Carol Oates: “Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die.” Arthur and Oates both performed […]
Disadvantage of novelists in politically charged times …
Disadvantage of novelists in politically charged times—a sympathy for diverse points of view will get you in serious trouble. @JoyceCarolOates on Twitter
Distaste: Joyce Carol Oates and Food
David Rutledge’s article “Distaste: Joyce Carol Oates and Food” closes the 2014 issue of Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies, which began publishing in July of this year. In many […]
Ontario Review 12: Carlos Fuentes, John Updike, Maxine Kumin…
The Spring-Summer 1980 issue of Ontario Review is now available online, with reviews by Joyce Carol Oates and featuring Carlos Fuentes, John Updike, Maxine Kumin, and many others. Fiction A […]
Ontario Review 41
The 41st issue of Ontario Review, originally published Fall/Winter 1994–95, is now available online. Featuring photographs by Bill Ravanesi, the issue also includes a drama feature with plays commissioned for […]
Mark of Satan to be short film, with your help.
Independent filmmakers Brandon Nease and Jackson Wickham plan to turn Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Mark of Satan” into a short film, and you can help make this happen.
Tweeting Toward Sacrilege
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni interviews Joyce Carol Oates about the twitter-ruckus over JCO’s tweets asking if sexual harassment of women in Egypt was related to Islam. “She just tweeted, and isn’t sure why a format seemingly designed for uncensored, spontaneous, imprecise musings, not nuanced manifestoes, should become grist for such outrage.” It’s a little surprising to me that […]
Matthew Surridge on The Accursed
Matthew Surridge, writing for Blackgate.com, considered each book in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Gothic” series, in preparation for The Accursed, the final book of the series to be published. He now offers his take on The Accursed, as well as the series as a whole.
The Great Gatsby: An Essay in Tweets
Melville’s Ahab (19th century), Fitzgerald’s Gatsby (20th century)—our tragic American heroes to set beside Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear.
Celestial Timepiece 