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  • Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Career Joyce Carol Oates On Launching a Writing Career Today

    have a huge fond place in my heart for author Joyce Carol Oates. She is one of the most successful authors of our time. That is one reason why I love this post about what advice Oates would give if she were launching a writing career today. Her answers might   from BlogHer Read more »

  • claire messud NYS Summer Writers Institute 2012

    of the names you might recognize: Rick Moody, Joyce Carol Oates, Jamaica Kincaid, Mary Gaitskill, Russell Banks, Claire Messud, William Kennedy (of course), and more... JULY 3: Louise Gluck (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry) and Caryl Phillips   from All Over Albany Read more »

  • Sideshow or knockout?

    role of women in the ring. There remains a large contingent of commentators and boxing conservatives who agree with Joyce Carol Oates, that boxing is a rubric for the masculine, and that a woman is perhaps best suited parading the ring with a scorecard in   from The Age Read more »

  • Review: A Widow’s Story

    the book drag in a few places. I listened to the audio version of A Widow’s Story – it’s narrated by Ellen Parker who was the perfect fit for this book. In my mind, her voice was the voice of Joyce Carol Oates. The audio book runs approximately 15 hours.   from Bermudaonion's Weblog Read more »

  • Polanski’s Cannes Whitewash

    fickle, it’s not surprising when former idols are eventually demonized and the biographical impulse congeals into what Joyce Carol Oates terms “pathography”—a sensationalistic preoccupation with the flaws, perceived or real, of influential men and women. In   from The Daily Beast Read more »

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About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author. Raised in rural, working-class New York, Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as numerous volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, resulting in a reputation for prolificacy. Her novel them (1969) won the National Book Award, and her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Oates is widely recognized as one of the leading American novelists to have emerged since the 1960s.[citation needed]

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