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Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Joy is out of town, so I have to read the NYT for myself. Well, I kind of scanned it. The book section is pretty dry this week. There's the sad news that neither John Updike, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo or Joyce Carol Oates will be getting the Nobel Prize. Also, a new book on the Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemmings relationship. And by the way, OJ is going to jail. (The OJ story wasn't in the book section,...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973–1982 by Joyce Carol Oates Edited by Greg Johnson HarperCollins, October 14, 2008 "The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a daily account of a
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
A little bit to my surprise, the "Discussion Among Writers" dedicated to "The Devil Within," featuring Elmore Leonard, Joyce Carol Oates, and Matthew Klam and moderated by Daniel Zalewski, was a light, lively, and amusing affair, quite in contrast to the stated subject. The taciturn Leonard, who would have looked quite at home whittling a garter snake out of a twig, was flanked by the admiring Oates...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Narrative's Story of the Week feature this week: Gargoyle By Joyce Carol Oates What to make of loneliness. Can you imagine? Three-fifteen a.m. and you lie spread-eagled in bed in your cocoon of a bed in your ripe swollen cocoon of a body while I drive through the snowy drizzle querying myself about life. Driving along a deserted boulevard. Yellow street lights high atop slender poles. Rain,
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Working Stiffs (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
by Kathie Shoop While I’m sure most Working Stiffs blog readers are well aware of Joyce Carol Oates’s book called The Faith of a Writer: Life Craft, Art , I just became acquainted with it last month. Like a friend dropping in with the perfect supportive words when I’m feeling down, this book really spoke to me and lifted my glum perspective on publishing. I’m querying my historical fiction novel again...
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A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Is it possible to be extremely disturbed by something you've just read, so disturbed that you feel sort of nasty and a little dirty, and when you turn the last pages and close the book all you want to do...
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Curbed SF (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. Hitchcock's Psycho, a Joyce Carol Oates short, the Zodiac Killer's H.Q., Kate Moss's infamous Calvin Klein kiddie porn campaign— 266 Ottawa Street could serve as a set for many a twisted...
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Chained to the Cinémathèque (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
She stood in line, reading the New York Review of Books; first finishing an article by Oliver Sacks on manic depression, then beginning an article on Emily Dickinson written by Joyce Carol Oates. She seemed like the kind of woman waiting for her Byron, or perhaps that was just the confluence of the pieces she was reading and the romantic film that she was in line to see. She wore her light brown hair...
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Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
In a 1999 New York Times essay, Joyce Carol Oates compared the industrious walker-writers of the 19th century (Coleridge, Dickens, Whitman) with the philosophical runners of our times. "In running," she wrote, "the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse...
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A Work in Progress (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
There's something a little unnerving about Joyce Carol Oates's work. I felt it when I read her story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been earlier this year, and I felt it particularly in her story, "Haunted", which I...
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The Library Ladder (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
4.5 Library Ladder Rungs out of 5 Wild Nights! – Joyce Carol Oates This is a wonderfully weird book of stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway that I read this summer. I’m not very familiar with any of the writers but the author’s aim was to write in language alluding to each of the individual styles of the mentioned well-known literary writers. I already used this...
