Joyce Carol Oates has produced an abundance of novels, poetry, and nonfiction throughout her lengthy career. Some of her best-known books include them, What I Lived For, We Were The Mulvaneys, and Blonde. She also publishes under the pseudonyms Lauren Smith and Rosamond Kelly.
The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we’re reading, we’re thinking. It’s a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we’re looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there’s not as much reflective time. And it’s the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.
— Joyce Carol Oates
ARTICLES FEATURING JOYCE CAROL
The Ineluctable Agon of Desire: Joyce Carol Oates’s Suspense Fiction
The prolific author has produced, sometimes under pseudonyms, a rich harvest of taut, stylish thrillers....
Hard Time: On Joyce Carol Oates’s “Hazards of Time Travel”
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A Murderer, a Martyr, a Daughter, a Lover: Four Ways of Looking at Abortion
A crop of new books — a novel and three memoirs — add complexity to the seemingly insurmountable national divide over abortion....
Sowing Wild Oates
Nathan Smith on the prolific Joyce Carol Oates's new essay collection, "Soul at the White Heat."...
The Evolution of a Writer
Lynne Sharon Schwartz discusses Joyce Carol Oates's "The Lost Landscape."...
Tiger Lady: On Joan Williams
Faulkner tried the personae of mentor, father figure, and literary conduit in an effort to have a love affair that trumped the other roles....
