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12 unusual facts about Joyce Carol Oates


A Garden of Earthly Delights

-- this and some other material added 2012-04-14 is essentially from Them (novel) or Joyce Carol Oates

A Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard in 1967.

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart

Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart is a 1990 novel by American novelist Joyce Carol Oates.

By the North Gate

By the North Gate is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.

I Am No One You Know: Stories

I Am No One You Know: Stories is a short story collection by Joyce Carol Oates.

In the Region of Ice

In the Region of Ice is a 1976 American short film directed by Peter Werner, based upon the short story of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.

Middle Age: A Romance

Middle Age : A Romance is a bestselling 2001 novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

Raymond J. Smith

Raymond Joseph Smith (1930–2008) was for more than thirty years the editor of Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, and for more than 45 years the husband of writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Sanna Persson

Persson has also played serious roles, including in, Jan Troell's "Så vit som en snö", a production of Joyce Carol Oates's play Naked and the docudrama "Hjärtats oro" about Hjalmar Bergman.

Small Avalanches and Other Stories

Small Avalanches and Other Stories is a young adult collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.

The Best American Series

Many editions are a mix of more-established authors (e.g., Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Chabon, Lorrie Moore) with up-and-coming writers who have achieved moderate success (e.g., Benjamin Percy, Kyle Minor, Ander Monson).

Wild Nights!

Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates.


Harvard Review

Among the authors that have appeared in the magazine are Arthur Miller, Alice Hoffman, Seamus Heaney, Gore Vidal, David Mamet, Joyce Carol Oates, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Jim Crace, John Updike, and Thomas McGuane.

Jane Flanders

Joyce Carol Oates said of her first published volume that, "Many of her poems have the bite and sting of Ann Sexton's poetry, but they are admirably restrained as well, tracing the necessary journey one makes in "coming back" to one's deepest self after a busy, extroverted life." Publishers Weekly described her as "a radiant poet," a characterization Karl Kirchwey adopted as the title of an appreciation in which he compares her to Elizabeth Bishop.

Joan Murray

Her second book, Queen of the Mist, a novel-in-verse about the first person to go over Niagara in a barrel, was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates as runner up for a Poetry Society of America award; she was also commissioned by Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters to adapt it for the stage.

Joanne V. Creighton

The author of four books on William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Drabble, Creighton has also written a number of book reviews as well as op-eds and articles on issues facing higher education and women's colleges.

Michigan Quarterly Review

In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.

Milton District High School

A Milton student's parent opposed the use of a novel, Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, written by Joyce Carol Oates, in the grade 12 advanced English course, due to its themes of sexuality and violence, and the profane language used.

Narrative Magazine

Its online library of writing by established writers, such as T. C. Boyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Robert Olen Butler, James Salter, Ann Packer, Chris Abani, Ann Beattie and Jayne Anne Phillips, and younger, new, and emerging writers, such as Anthony Marra, Emily Raboteau, Nate Haken, Edan Lepucki, Skip Horack, Josh Weil, and Will Boast is available for free.

Reading Myself and Others

Among the interviews, one was conducted by the author Joyce Carol Oates about Roth's novel The Breast (1972).

Studio 360

And while the show features regular guest interviews with authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, and Miranda July, and musicians as diverse as Laura Veirs, Don Byron, and k.d. lang, it also has several recurring segments.

The Best American Short Stories 2003

Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2002" were Andrea Barrett, Rick Bass, Robert Coover, Donald Hall, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Paley, John Updike and John Edgar Wideman.

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

Since this short story had not debuted on its own, many authors included this ghostly story in their anthologies including American Gothic Tales, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, while several others decided to retell the story, for example, Ginevra written by, Samuel Rogers.