JCO Miscellany: One

“What is the worst thing that can happen?”
Lisa, from the long-running TV show The Simpsons, imagines herself in prison on the March 23, 2008 episode. The guard arrives with the book mobile …
Lisa: “Got any Joyce Carol Oates?”
Guard: “Nope, it’s all Danielle Steele.”
 
Now that’s a rough prison. (Thanks to TVRecapMatt)
Woundedness, Rejection and Inspiration
Tammy Ayer [...]

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Ontario Review Retires after 34 Years

With the passing of its editor, Raymond J. Smith, Ontario Review itself will cease publication with the forthcoming Spring 2008 issue. Smith began Ontario Review in 1974 in Windsor, Ontario, with his wife Joyce Carol Oates as associate editor; the Review later moved with its editors to Princeton, NJ.
Smith wrote about the impetus for Ontario [...]

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