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This was the first of Joyce Carol Oates’ books I ever read, and it totally hooked me on her.
Worldview Entertainment has optioned the script for Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe biopic 'Blonde'. The story is based on a 700-page imagined memoir written by Joyce Carol Oates, though the previously attached Naomi Watts is no longer a part of the project…
I opened the Twitter account for Roger Vivier and in just one day we had 1,000 followers. Can you imagine? ... It’s really quick and fun. There are all kinds of people to [interact with]: actors, singers, unknown people or [authors like] Joyce Carol Oates and even the Pope. I follow President Barack Obama, although he doesn’t follow me ... yet.More quotes »
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Vice Published a Fashion Spread of Female Writer Suicides
Vice's Women in Fiction issue is an interesting package. There's a short story by Mary Gaitskill here, an interview with Marilynne Robinson there, and a short story by Joyce Carol Oates over yonder. And then...there's the fashion spread. Featuring models 6/17/13 from Jezebel Read more »
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Caitlin R. Kiernan, Mort Castle, Joyce Carol Oates among 2013 Bram Stoker Award Winners in Horror
Caitlin R. Kiernan won best novel for The Drowning Girl, Joyce Carol Oates shared an award, and Mort Castle walked away with two haunted house trophies. Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Clive Barker and Robert R. McCammon. The complete list of 2013 ca 6/17/13 from Omnivoracious Read more »
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A Virtuoso at Work: Joyce Carol Oates Turns 75
Joyce Carol Oates turned 75 years old yesterday, and sheâs now writing some of the best fiction of her career. More than any other American novelist of her generation, Oates has been ruthless in questioning her obsessions. Constantly experimenting with 6/17/13 from The Millions Read more »
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Today's Birthday: Joyce Carol Oates
Oates has taught English at the University of Detroit and the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, and has been affiliated with Princeton University since 1978. She writes about contemporary American life, which she sees as defined by violence. She from InfoPlease Read more »
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Joyce Carol Oates Gives Questionable Advice, and Other News
“If you want to get the news from poems, you’ve come to the right place.” That would be the Boston Review. So much for reading being its own reward. This principal eats worms when his students meet reading goals. Mandarin: a language uniquely well-suited from The Paris Review Read more »
