Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates New York: Akashic Books, 2019 234 Pages Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the […]
Prison Noir
The blood jet is poetry—these words of Sylvia Plath have reverberated through my experience of reading and rereading the fifteen stories of Prison Noir.
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 […]
Celestial Timepiece 