New York Post (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
THE Fringe Festival is bursting with one-per son shows, but you won't find any two more different in tone than "Zombie" and "That Dorothy Parker." Each offers distinct pleasures, though "Zombie" - based on a Joyce Carol Oates novella - offers the...
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Joyce Carol Oates is one of America’s most famous and successful writers. She has written enthralling stories and novels in a variety of genres. “Come Meet Muffin!” is her first venture into children’s literature. Unfortunately, she either has no knack for this genre or at least has not developed one. “Come Meet Muffin!” [...] ShareThis
Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Kelefa Sanneh talks about Tavis Smiley talking about Barack Obama. RIP Isaac Hayes and Bernie Mac . Old people say these things happen in threes. Let's hope they're wrong. The folks are the NYT are feeling stabby. Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Olen Butler , both got the smackdown on the book review page. Both were given the grade-school admonition that they aren't living up to their potential. Techinically,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Joyce Carol Oates’s novelistic take on the JonBenet Ramsey story.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Joyce Carol Oates isn't known for lightheartedness, but "My Sister, My Love" - a fictionalized version of the JonBenet Ramsey story, so thinly veiled as to risk its own kind of indecency - is a grim book even for her.
A Century of Nerve (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
(The title of this post, incidentally, comes from the title of the Joyce Carol Oates short story I must’ve read at least — and I mean this, at least — ten thousand billion times in high school, as it seemed to be in every fiction anthology and textbook we used. I always wanted to [...]
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Horror? Or hipsters! Joyce Carol Oates has not only written 731 novels —she’s also popping up ( boing! ) in the Fringe Festival, in the form of a theatrical adaptation of her novella Zombie , the jaunty tale of a sexual psychopath (no one under 18 will be admitted!), directed by Thomas Caruso, the same guy who directs Mamma Mia! (The musical, not the unfortunate movie version.) Later, if you’re in...
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
(Woman) Writer is a fascinating collection of essays by the famous and prolific author Joyce Carol Oates. The essays meander wonderfully amongst subjects, including an overview of general topics relating to the art of writing, Oates’ interpretations of a variety of literary works ranging from the classic to the little-known, and the bloody sport [...]
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Some of Joyce Carol Oates' books feel as though she wrote them as dares to herself. This novel, her 37th, is one of the wildest.
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
The Story of Mankind by Van Loon Foundation by Mercedes Lackey Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks Visitors by Brookner Political Thinking by Glenn Tinder Ask A Mexican by Gustavo Arellano How I Learned English My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole [...]
Joystory (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
I was mistaken in yesterday's post about having missed all of Oates books since 1996. I had been looking only at her list of novels for grown-ups and this book was in the list for YA. But I shouldn't have needed to see the title in that list to remember as my niece is currently reading it and we had been talking about it just last weekend. I not only read this about three years ago, I wrote this tiny...
Joystory (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
I discovered Joyce Carol Oates in 1980 when I saw Bellefleur in book store, read the cover and the first couple of pages and then checked it out of the library as soon as I could. Over the next twenty years I read everything that came out and caught up with previous titles as they were available in the library. Somehow, in the last ten years I let my attention be diverted and have missed most of the...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Living Dolls My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates / Jennifer McKeown...
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
7/26/08: I’m over halfway through this book, “the third and most ambitious of a trilogy of novels exploring the inner lives of representative young Americans from the perspective of a ‘class war’.” “The them of the novel are poor whites, separated by race (and racist) distinctions from their near neighbors, poor blacks and Hispanics.” The [...]
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
My reading has been rather grim this week, which befits my mood, unfortunately. I read Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer for Eldest Daughter’s book club. It won the National Book Award in 1961. Then I started reading them by Joyce Carol Oates. It won the National Book Award in 1970. I can tell you that neither [...]
