JCO Miscellany: Four

A Hollywood film based on Joyce Carol Oates’s novella Rape: A Love Story is scheduled to begin shooting in June. The film will star Samuel L. Jackson, Maria Bello, and Abigail Breslin; be written by John Mankiewicz, and directed by Harold Becker (who directed George C. Scott, Sean Penn, and Tom Cruise in “Taps”; and Al Pacino in “Sea of Love” and “City Hall”).

Ellen Datlow’s new anthology, Lovecraft Unbound (October 2009), will include the Joyce Carol Oates story, “Commencement,” originally published in Al Sarrantonio‘s 2001 anthology, Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction.

Zombie, a play adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’s 1995 novel, begins a six-week run at The Studio at Theatre Row. Written by, and starring Bill Connington, the play premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Zombie runs from February 18 through March 29.

Joyce / Carolee

Joyce Carol Oates will be at Bloomingdale’s to support Literacy Partners, a charitable organization teaching adult literacy skills. Fashion jewelry company CAROLEE will be selling an Author’s Collection of bangles called “Words to Live By,” engraved with quotes from Joyce Carol Oates (and others) as well as the author’s signature. CAROLEE will donate 10% of retail sales from the Author’s Collection to Literacy Partners.

JCO will appear on Saturday, March 7, at 2 pm for a book signing at Bloomingdale’s 59th St in New York City. Buy a bangle, get a signed copy of My Sister, My Love or We Were the Mulvaneys.

Those unable to make it to NYC can get their bangles online; but, alas, no signed book.