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“How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in Triquarterly (Spring 1969) and first collected in The Wheel of Love (1970) by Vanguard Press.
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.
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch magazine. It was inspired by three Tucson, Arizona , murders committed by Charles Schmid , which were profiled in Life magazine in an article written by Don Moser on March ...
“Unmailed, Unwritten Letters” is a work of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates originally published in The Hudson Review (Spring 1969), and first collected in The Wheel of Love (1970) by Vanguard Press. [1] The story was reprinted in Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards; Oates was awarded their Special Award for Continuing Excellence. [2] [3]
The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates.It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother, whose father, a gravedigger settled in rural America, injured his wife, threatened his daughter, and then committed suicide. [1]
Kirkus Reviews registers impatience with Oates’s literary style, her “emptily elaborate prose” and her narratives which invariably “lapse into her standard grisly agenda.” The review limits its approval to one story, “The Autumn of the Year,” in which a young man brutally chastises his father’s former mistress for destroying his ...