Joyce Carol Oates as Heroine  by Gloria Vanderbilt
Joyce Carol Oates at Work  by Gloria Vanderbilt
Joyce Carol Oates in Red Hat  by Gloria Vanderbilt
JCO on Steve Martin
forthcoming works
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Text and Criticism
Boxing
Raymond J. Smith

The Corn Maiden

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmaresright-arrows

2011 Bram Stoker Award nomination: Collection
Includes the World Fantasy Award winner "Fossil-Figures"

"In each astute, creepy, nearly paralyzing tale of longing, malevolence, and calamity, Oates extends her tireless exploration deep into the darkness of damaged and criminal psyches, a realm of terrible power."

—Donna Seaman, Booklist

"This volume burnishes Oates's reputation as a master of psychological dread."

—Publishers Weekly




New Jersey Noirright-arrows

Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book.

Publishers Weekly



 

A Widow's Story

A Widow's Story: A Memoirright-arrows

"...a cascade-of-consciousness that will mostly mesmerize you and surely move you ...

[Oates] has assembled a book more painfully self-revelatory than anything Oates the fiction writer or critic has ever dared to produce."

—Ann Hulbert, New York Times Book Review

"Oates has always focused her writing so intensely that virtually all her prose is compelling, but this brave account of her recent grief seems composed with something close to abandon."

—Valerie Sayers, Washington Post


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