Joyce Carol Oates reviews Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle for the New York Review of Books:
Of the precocious children and adolescents of mid-twentieth-century American fiction—a dazzling lot that includes the tomboys Frankie of Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding (1946) and Scout of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the murderous [...]
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Joyce Carol Oates on Shirley Jackson
Posted in Books, Gothic, Horror, Interviews, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, Reviews, tagged Shirley Jackson on September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Joyce Carol Oates on Ted Kennedy
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, tagged Chappaquiddick, Edward Kennedy, Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy on August 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
As Edward Kennedy is lauded for his tremendous accomplishments as a Senator, Joyce Carol Oates remembers a voiceless victim from his past. From the Guardian:
‘There are no second acts in American lives’– this dour pronouncement of F Scott Fitzgerald has been many times refuted, and at no time more appropriately than in reference to the [...]
Joyce Carol Oates in Paris
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Writing on July 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Guest post by Tanya Tromble
Joyce Carol Oates made an appearance in Paris on Saturday, July 4, for an interview and book signing session at the Virgin Megastore on the Champs Elysées. The appearance was to promote the release of the French translation of her Journal. She responded to questions from an interviewer and then from [...]
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, [...]