Joyce Carol Oates

The Book We're Talking About: 'Mudwoman' by Joyce Carol Oates

Posted 04.02.2012

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"Mudwoman" by Joyce Carol Oates HarperCollins, $26.95 Published March 20, 2012 What is it about? Meredith Ruth (M.R.) Neukirchen is the fi...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where I Like To Read

Joyce Carol Oates | Posted 05.23.2012

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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.

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Literature As Legacy: Writing Across The Generational Divide

Laura Paull | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: San Francisco Jewish Community Center, Saul Bellow, Philip Levine Poet Laureate, Joyce Carol Oates, American Writers, Vassar College, I.B.SInger, WIlliam Gifford, Philip Levine, Jewish American Writers, Nicole Krauss, Cynthia Ozick, Brett Singer, I.J. SInger, Harold Bloom, Peter Orner, Writing, Bookfest, San Francisco News

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.

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Writers' Valentines to Their Mentors

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Mentors, Joyce Carol Oates, Writers, Michael Cunningham, Inspiration, Fiction, Valentines Day, Cheryl Strayed, Influence, Jonathan Safran Foer, Books News

Several years ago, I unleashed a whole lot of gratitude and love in a group of wonderful writers

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The Fastest Writers Ever Give You Advice for NaNoWriMo

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Nanowrimo, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, John Updike, Jack Kerouac, Christopher Hitchens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books News

From Flavorwire Yesterday marked the kickoff of National Novel-Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), the online project that challenges participants to wr...

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What Is It Actually Like To Sell A Novel?

themillions.com | Posted 09.06.2011

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"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."...

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Literary Divas You Can’t Help But Love

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Literature, Joyce Carol Oates, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Jamaica Kincaid, Terry McMillan, Literary Divas, Amy Chua, Margaret Atwood, Bernard Henri Levy, Salman Rushdie, Joan Acocella, Books News

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...

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Free eBook Of The Day

eBookNewser | Dianna Dilworth on June 13, 2011 1:39 PM | Posted 08.13.2011

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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. ...

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The Decline Of The Pseudonym

salon.com | Carmela Ciuraru | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Timothy Gallwey, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Carol Oates, Nora Roberts, Nom De Plume, Michael Crighton, The Inner Game of Tennis, Pseudonyms, Alias, Books News

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...

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Required Reading: Devastatingly Sad Books

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....

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Portraits Of Authors In Their Own Words

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: E.E. Cummings, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, Word Portraits, John Sokol, Song of Solomon, Author Drawings, Flannery O?Connor, Charles Baudelaire, Author Portraits, Portraits of Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, War and Peace, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Books News

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...

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Book Review Roundup: A History Of Information And Short Stories Galore

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

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"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...

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Derangement

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Obama Presents Arts & Humanities Awards | Meryl Streep, James Taylor Among Those Honored

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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President Obama To Award 20 Arts And Humanities Medals

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is to award the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to 20 people Wednesday in the White...

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Joyce Carol Oates on A Widow's Story

Louise McCready | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week marks the release of Joyce Carol Oates' memoir A Widow's Story.

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Lots Of Love And A Little Anarchy

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady" by Elizabeth Stuckey-French New York Times "The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady" is populated exclusively by...

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Best Literary Sex Scenes (Most Don't Take Place In Beds)

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milan Kundera, Beloved, Toni Morrison, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, Joyce Carol Oates, Literary Sex Scenes, Sex, Kathy Acker, Zora Neale Hurston, Benjamin Hale, Books News

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...

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eBooks Or Print?: 5 Literary Brains Weigh In On The Future Of Reading

Newsweek | Ramin Setoodeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Joyce Carol Oates, William Lynch, Judith Regan, Dave Eggers, E-Books, James H. Billington, Barnes and Noble, Books News

The transformation of the book industry has reached a tipping point. Electronic books now outsell paperbacks on Amazon, the retailer recently announce...

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On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre, Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Simmons, Junot Diaz, Andy Borowitz, Wells Tower, T.R. Knight, Steven Adler, Joyce Carol Oates, Ace Frehley, New Yorker Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Krugman, A Life in the Theatre, Saturday Night Live, David Mamet, Jeffrey Toobin, Patrick Stewart, New York News

The discussions at the New Yorker Festival have become kind of legendary with events often selling out just minutes after they go on sale.

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Master of Dark Tales

Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 05.25.2011

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"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,...

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Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature:

Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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New Yorker Festival 2010 Lineup Announced: Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers

Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Writing Habits of the Not-Yet-Rich, and Not-Yet-Famous

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Saving The Stories Of Beverly Jensen: One Man's Quest To Publish His Wife's Stories After Her Death

Jay Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Beverly Jensen, Joyce Carol Oates, Book Publishing, Pancreatic Cancer, Stephen King, Books, Elizabeth Strout, Cancer, Books News

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.

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