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Jocoserious Joyce
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in Critical Inquiry, Summer 1976; reprinted in Contraries. “Everything speaks in its own way.” Ulysses Ulysses is certainly the greatest novel in the English...
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JCO Reviews Rafael Yglesias’s The Wisdom of Perversity
Joyce Carol Oates reviews Rafael Yglesias’s The Wisdom of Perversity in the New York Times Book Review. Childhood was the ideal soft metal for the permanent engravings of evil. This beautifully,...
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2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Lovely, Dark, Deep
Lovely, Dark, Deep, Joyce Carol Oates’s story collection from 2014 was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. A rich collection of stories told from many rungs of the social ladder and...
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Eric K. Anderson reviews Jack of Spades
Eric K. Anderson reviews Joyce Carol Oates’s novel Jack of Spades in Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies. Joyce Carol Oates has considered the issues of authorship and identity at length in both...
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“I Know You!”: The Implications of Knowing in Joyce Carol Oates’s Marya: A Life
Josephene T.M. Kealey addresses the idea of “knowing” in her essay on Joyce Carol Oates’s Marya: A Life, published in Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies. “Joyce Carol Oates’s Preface to the...
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Joyce Carol Oates Remembers Marilyn Monroe and the Novel She Inspired
LIFE cover 8-17-1962: Memories of Marilyn. The headline on the front page of the Detroit Free Press read: “Marilyn Monroe is Dead of Pill Overdose.” Among those shocked by the report was the author...
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The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in “So Help Me God.” Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the phone her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows...
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Inspiration and Obsession in Life and Literature
Joyce Carol Oates writes about motive, metaphor, and inspiration in the New York Review of Books: “Without the stillness, thoughtfulness, and depths of art, and without the ceaseless moral rigors of...
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Deadly Girls’ Voices …
Pascale Antolin writes about Deadly Girls’ Voices in the latest article from Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies. This article focuses on deadly girls’ voices in “The Banshee” and “Doll: A...
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The Pulitzer Prize that wasn’t given to THEM
Joyce Carol Oates’s 1969 novel, them, won the National Book Award in 1970; but it is not widely known that the book was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize that same year. In fact, the Pulitzer...
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Gregory Heisler’s portrait of Joyce Carol Oates
An image of Joyce Carol Oates by portrait photographer Gregory Heisler is available in a 2013 collection of his work: Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits. Joyce Carol Oates by Gregory Heisler I had just read...
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Zombie
Meet Quentin P. Author: Joyce Carol Oates Publisher: Dutton Year: 1995 Pages: 181 He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge of...
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If Joyce Carol Oates Ruled the World
“In my kingdom firearms would be rigged so as to fire backward. Even as the avid gun-wielder pulls the trigger he is doing his small part in eradicating a global problem.” Photo by “evilgurl” Life is...
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Drowned at Birth
BLOODLINE, ELEGY: SU QIJIAN FAMILY, BEIJING Joyce Carol Oates In the mud-colored Hai River a swirl of infant-girl bodies. In the river-trance the infant girls are propelled with the current. You stare,...
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“At Least I Have Made a Woman of Her”: Images of Women in Yeats, Lawrence,...
By Joyce Carol Oates Originally commissioned by the Conference on Changing Perspectives on Intimacy, Sexuality, and Commitment, at the University of Hartford, June 7–18, 1982, and published in The...
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Into the Void: Lovecraft and the World Fantasy Award
Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Fossil-Figures” from the collection The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares won a World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her story collection Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque was a...
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What is the Fear?
“All we hear of ISIS is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous?” Joyce Carol Oates asks on Twitter. The immediate reaction on Twitter and in the traditional media was...
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The Death Throes of Romanticism: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
by Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in Southern Review, July 1973. Reprinted in New Heaven, New Earth. I am not cruel, only truthful— The eye of a little god. . . . Plath, Mirror Tragedy is not a...
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Uncensored Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Edited by Karen V. Kukil by Joyce Carol Oates Originally published under the title “Raising Lady Lazarus” in the New York Times Book Review, November 5, 2000....
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Haunted Sylvia Plath
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, by Jacqueline Rose (Virago Press) by Joyce Carol Oates Originally published under the title “Behind the Icon” in TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, June 21, 1991....
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