Forthcoming Works

Patricide: A Novella
(eBook)
By Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: July 3,  2012

Roland Marks is a Nobel Prize winning novelist with a penchant for younger women and four marriages behind him. Lou-Lou Marks, his grown daughter, is a successful academic in her own right. But her real career lies in attending to her father. An egomaniacal and emotionally manipulative man, he demands of her absolute filial loyalty and an uncompromising acquiescence to his every need—her only reward is his approval, which she feels she never fully receives, but desperately desires. When Roland falls in love with a woman fifty years his junior, Lou-Lou senses the precarious decline of her power. Intent on preventing Roland from marrying for a fifth time and signing away his estate—and her inheritance—the relationship takes a darkly comical turn.

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
Working title: Tink, Inc.
(young adult novel)
By Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: August 21,  2012

The girls of Tink, Inc., are: Merissa ("The Perfect One"), Nadia ("The Slut"), and, until last summer, Tink.

Senior year, their last year together, Merissa and Nadia need Tink more than they ever did before. They each have secrets they could share with no one but her, secrets that have become toxic and that threaten to unravel their friendship—and themselves. Tink had a secret, too, a big one, but no one knows what it was. And now she's gone.

Then, the girls hear Tink, whispering to them. Sometimes, the girls feel Tink, trying to tell them something....

Oxford Book of American Short Stories
(2nd edition)
Edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: August 29, 2012

For the second edition, Oates has introduced a wide range of new stories from writers who represent the state of American literature today. These new works include Lorrie Moore's "How to Become a Writer," Richard Ford's "Under the Radar," Junot Diaz's "Edison, New Jersey," David Foster Wallace's "Good People," Philip Roth's "Defender of the Faith," and Amy Hempel's "Today Will Be a Quiet Day." As in the original volume, Oates provides fascinating introductions to each writer, blending biographical information with her own trenchant observations about their work. In addition, she has written a new preface and introductory essay for this edition, in which she offers the fruit of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a master.

Black Dahlia & White Rose
(stories)
By Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: September 11, 2012

Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong
By Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: January 8, 2013

Carthage
(novel) 
By Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: January 8, 2013

Daddy Love
(suspense novel) 
By Joyce Carol Oates
Mysterious Press
Expected publication date: January, 2013 ?

The Coming Storm
(poems)
By Joyce Carol Oates
Expected publication date: ??