Joyce Carol Oates

Jan 15, 2025 | newyorker.com | Joyce Carol Oates

Like many people, the novelist Garth Risk Hallberg was daunted by the size of the celebrated American writer Joyce Carol Oates’s body of work, which encompasses dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories. “I think what everyone feels with her is trepidation,” he said. “You think, What if I don’t like it?

Jan 11, 2025 | salmagundi.skidmore.edu | Joyce Carol Oates

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. —H.P. Lovecraft, “Supernatural Horror in Literature”There are far worse things awaiting than death. —Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)Why should we wish to experience fear? What is the mysterious appeal, in the structured coherences of art, of such dissolving emotions as anxiety, dislocation, terror? Is fear a singular, universal experience, or is it ever-shifting, indefinable?

Nov 9, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is one of today’s finest writers. Her latest release, FLINT KILL CREEK, is a collection of new, recent and reformulated tales. They are written in her indomitable style that has made her a legend, and even in the short story form, her keen eye and way with words are evident. Here are just a few of my favorite pieces:“Flint Kill Creek”: The title story refers to a creek in upstate New York around the Buffalo area.

Nov 8, 2024 | corriere.it | Joyce Carol Oates

Il pretendente (1835), Signorina Elias Rollins, nata Tabitha Tyndale, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania .

Nov 7, 2024 | cbr.com | Joyce Carol Oates |Kassie Duke

TV Published 4 minutes ago Sign in to your CBR account Actress Christina Ricci rose to stardom in her childhood roles in the 1990s. She appeared in comedy-horror movies like The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), Casper (1995), and family comedies like That Darn Cat (1997). She's never shied away from the darker or more challenging roles, even as she reached adulthood. In 1999, she starred in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow alongside Johnny Depp. Later, she gained praise for her...