Joyce Carol Oates’s story collection Wild Nights! is among the finalists for the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award. Other finalists in the “collection” category include A Better Angel, Chris Adrian; Dangerous Laughter, Steven Millhauser; The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa; The Girl on the Fridge, Etgar Keret; and Just After Sunset, Stephen King.
The Shirley Jackson Awards ”have been established for outstanding achievement in [...]
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JCO Miscellany: Four
Posted in Books, Drama, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, tagged Abigail Breslin, Ellen Datlow, Harold Becker, Maria Bello, Samuel L. Jackson on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Joyce / Carolee
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, tagged Bloomingdale's, CAROLEE, charity, literacy on February 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
John Updike
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviews, tagged John Updike on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
John Updike was “the contemporary American writer [Joyce Carol Oates] most admired,” according to Greg Johnson’s biography of JCO: “Updike’s rural upbringing, his devotion to the art of fiction, his wide reading,
and his amazing productivity resembled her own, even though the two writers’ work could hardly have been more different in style and subject matter.”
Updike, [...]
The Woman in White
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Reviews, tagged Emily Dickinson, Martin Johnson Heade on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the September 25 edition of the New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates reviews Christopher Benfrey’s A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade; and Brenda Wineapple’s White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
“And the hummingbird as [...]
Kentucky Welcomes JCO
Posted in Awards, Books, Interviews, Joyce Carol Oates, Uncategorized, tagged Nancy Grace, Nobel Prize on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cheryl Truman, books editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader, profiles and interviews Joyce Carol Oates in advance of the Kentucky Women Writers Conference.
Tidbits of interest:
Oates didn’t used to be much of a TV watcher but admits immersing herself in tabloid-news TV to research My Sister, My Love: Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Nancy Grace (”I think sometimes she [...]