The Book We're Talking About: 'Mudwoman' by Joyce Carol Oates
"Mudwoman" by Joyce Carol Oates HarperCollins, $26.95 Published March 20, 2012 What is it about? Meredith Ruth (M.R.) Neukirchen is the fi...
"Mudwoman" by Joyce Carol Oates HarperCollins, $26.95 Published March 20, 2012 What is it about? Meredith Ruth (M.R.) Neukirchen is the fi...
Joyce Carol Oates | Posted 05.23.2012
I read in a perfectly normal, conventional place -- curled up on a sofa in our living room, beneath a light, with my little gray cat Cherie purring and sleeping beside me, if I'm lucky.
Laura Paull | Posted 04.25.2012
Literature as a creator of dialogues that deepen and explore the dynamic between different generations is a theme of a multi-day event at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center his weekend, through Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 04.14.2012
Several years ago, I unleashed a whole lot of gratitude and love in a group of wonderful writers
Posted 01.07.2012
From Flavorwire Yesterday marked the kickoff of National Novel-Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), the online project that challenges participants to wr...
themillions.com | Posted 09.06.2011
"We're closing in on a deal," my agent told me on the phone. "I'm just turning him upside-down now and shaking him for loose change."...
flavorwire.com | Posted 08.22.2011
There are divas and there are their lesser-known male counterparts, divos; the thing that unites them is their willingness to make demands and to do w...
eBookNewser | Dianna Dilworth on June 13, 2011 1:39 PM | Posted 08.13.2011
To promote its new video game Rock Star Games teamed up with Mullhollad Books to put out a collection of short stories called L.A. Noire last week. ...
salon.com | Carmela Ciuraru | Posted 08.13.2011
At its most basic level, a pseudonym is a prank. Yet the motives that lead writers to assume an alias are infinitely complex, sometimes mysterious eve...
flavorwire.com | Posted 07.12.2011
We’re the first to admit that, sometimes, the best cure for a hard week, a long day or just a rainy weekend is a really sad book....
flavorwire.com | Posted 06.18.2011
People say that the lines in your face are representative of the life you’ve led – as in, love your laugh lines because clearly you’ve had a goo...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
"Give Me Your Heart" by Joyce Carol Oates Los Angeles Times Oates isn't writing horror fiction, but she might as well be. Her stories pack the s...
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011
A Widow's Story is called a memoir, but the word seems too slight for the grandeur of what Joyce Carol Oates does in this work of startling intimacy, humanity, humility, and wisdom.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is honoring 20 artists, scholars and writers with top awards for the arts and humanities in a salute that em...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is to award the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to 20 people Wednesday in the White...
Louise McCready | Posted 05.25.2011
This week marks the release of Joyce Carol Oates' memoir A Widow's Story.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
"The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady" by Elizabeth Stuckey-French New York Times "The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady" is populated exclusively by...
flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011
Writing about sex in literature is a difficult task; there are so many ways authors can go wrong. Nowadays, most writers spend too much time on the bu...
Newsweek | Ramin Setoodeh | Posted 05.25.2011
The transformation of the book industry has reached a tipping point. Electronic books now outsell paperbacks on Amazon, the retailer recently announce...
Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011
The discussions at the New Yorker Festival have become kind of legendary with events often selling out just minutes after they go on sale.
Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 05.25.2011
"Sourland" (Ecco: $25.99) is an apt title for the latest collection of short stories from Joyce Carol Oates, which includes tales of violence, murder,...
Posted 05.25.2011
Narrative Magazine: Since her novel "Them" won the National Book Award in 1969, Joyce Carol Oates has been a major force in contemporary American lett...
Posted 05.25.2011
The weekend of October 1st is going to be very busy in the literary world, as heavy hitters from across all book genres are slated to appear at the 11...
Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
If you're one of those authors who spend a great deal of time socializing, networking or organizing, then don't be surprised that you haven't yet finished that novel you've been working on for these past five years.
Jay Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011
When Beverly Jensen, my wife, was dying in 2003, she feared she'd been given talents and had not used them. But in fact she had.
Posted 04.02.2012