Joyce Carol Oates adds to her many writings on Flannery O’Connor in the April 9 New York Review of Books with The Parables of Flannery O’Connor, a review-essay around Brad Gooch’s biography of O’Connor. JCO, a great admirer of O’Connor’s work, speaks of her “cartoon art” (but this term is desrciptive, not derogatory):
Is the art [...]
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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 [...]
The Pilgrim is Our Deepest and Purest American Self
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, Reviews on August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Joyce Carol Oates reviews Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, American Wife (and also looks at her previous novels), on page one of the New York Times Book Review:
“Our greatest 19th-century prose writers from Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville through Henry James and Mark Twain took it for granted that ‘American’ is an identity fraught with ambiguity, as in those allegorical parables by Hawthorne in [...]
My Sister, My Love is John Barth with Heart
Posted in Books, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged Edgar Allan Poe, JonBenet Ramsey on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler of The Huffington Post offer a perceptive and entertaining review of Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love: ”Oates’ intentions are signaled with a quotation that precedes the book. In ‘Aesthetics of Composition’ (1846), we learn, E. A. Pym opined that ‘the death of a beautiful child is unquestionably the most [...]
New York Review X 2
Posted in Books, Boxing, Joyce Carol Oates, Novels, Reviews, tagged Salman Rushdie on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Joyce Carol Oates has been a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books, contributing nearly fifty review-essays since the early nineties.
JCO’s latest are reviews of Boxing: A Cultural History in the May 29 NYRB: “As Kasia Boddy’s masterwork of bricolage sweeps on, there comes to be something wonderfully Joycean—oceanic, indefatigable, slightly deranged—in the [...]