A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork
Using her remarkable, literary voice to investigate the psychological experiences of victims, Oates requires that we willingly suspend our disbelief and reject realism as a means to identify societal truths.
A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society. Night. […]
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published as the introduction to Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers, Edited by Joyce Carol Oates. In the old days, […]
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 […]
A Novel of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates From a master “mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds” (New York Times Book Review), comes an eerie, […]
By Joyce Carol Oates INSIDE THE MIND OF THE MANIAC Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, […]
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in The New Yorker, July 28, 2015 For I will consider my Cat Cherie for she is the very apotheosis of Cat-Beauty which is […]
A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates A dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. “Time […]
I was on suicide watch at the detention center but I would never hang myself with shoelaces!—that’s got to be a joke. I would never hang myself in any way, it’s an ugly death. I’ve been close to strangled and I know.
By Joyce Carol Oates An unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories combined with eleven new stories. No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of […]
HE HATED SUSPENSE. He hated not-knowing. He hated not-being-the-One-who-has-written-the-script. He hated the suspense of such impotence and so he would make himself the master of suspense.
There is perhaps no writer more faithful to the mythologies of America than Cain, for he writes of its ideals and hatreds without obscuring them in the difficulties of art.
By Joyce Carol Oates SON OF THE MORNING is the story of Nathanael Vickery conceived in sin but blessed with evangelical purpose. For him, even as a child of five, […]
By Joyce Carol Oates In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface […]
Edited by Caroline Marquette and Tanya Tromble-Giraud Depuis la parution de son premier recueil de nouvelles, By the North Gate (1963), Joyce Carol Oates s’est imposée dans le paysage littéraire […]
It is so vividly human and so obviously based upon reality, that it strikes us as timeless.
Celestial Timepiece 