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Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
"The Girl with the Blackened Eye" was selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001. "The Skull" was selected for Best American Mystery Stories, 2003. "Three Girls" was a National Magazine Awards 2003 finalist and also won the Pushcart Prize, XXVIII. "Curly Red" was a National Magazine Awards 2002 finalist.
The Dead (Oates short story) The Fine White Mist of Winter; The Girl (short story) The Goddess (short story) The Lady With the Pet Dog; The Metamorphosis (1971 story) The Seduction and Other Stories; The Voyage to Rosewood
“In The Assignation, one of Oates’s two collections of ‘miniature narratives,’ such tales as “Blue-Bearded Lover” and “The Others" recall nineteenth-century Gothic literature, while others convey the kind of hothouse psychological intensity, the precarious balance between sanity and madness, traditionally associated with the genre.” [7]
The novel also covers a period of about three and a half years, while the film's action takes place during the course of a few weeks. Another adaption of the novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang , stars Raven Adamson as Legs, and directed by French director Laurent Cantet , was released in Europe in December 2012 and has been cited as ...
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982 (2007) In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters (2009) In Rough Country (2010) A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011) Joyce Carol Oates creates Evangeline Fife, who interviews Robert Frost: Lovely, Dark, Deep (2013) published in "Dead Interviews" [4] — (June 10–17, 2013). "After Black Rock". True Crimes. The ...
Oates at her worst. Of the 25 stories, three are acceptable…The charge is often made that Oates writes too quickly and too much; but the same working habits that produced The Goddess also produced her last two big collections, which contain, along with some tripe, some of the best stories in the language. Oates can’t work in any other way.
Multiple publications reviewed the collection after its publication. [5] Literary critic Elizabeth Pochoda writing in The New York Times opens her review of The Seduction and Other Stories defending Oates against unnamed critics who equate her immense literary output with “second-rate” writers. [6]