“[Joyce Carol Oates] says she often has to bribe herself to write — dangling an hour or two of gardening as her reward — and gets her best ideas while vacuuming.” C-SPAN’s new online video library is stuffed full of literary materia...

Joyce Carol Oates picked up her first lifetime achievement award Thursday night at the National Book Critics Circle 2009 Awards Ceremony.

My framed, original Marilyn calendar has been glaring at me from my den wall ever since I finished Joyce Carol Oates’ Blonde. When I look at it now, I feel as if I was there when it was shot. I’m not sure if I was the camera, the ph...

A Fair Maiden, Joyce Carol Oates’ latest tale of a teenage girl beset by a world that doesn’t have her best interests at heart, meanders for a long while before reaching a conclusion that rises to a curious level of gothic intensity...

Winners to be named March 11, Joyce Carol Oates wins Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing goes to Joan Accocela.

Prolific author Jami Attenberg is well on her way to becoming the Joyce Carol Oates of Brooklyn. With her debut short story collection, Instant Love,...

In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who will also be reading at The Rumpus’s first anni...

It's not yet a week into 2010, and Joyce Carol Oates has a new book on shelves. "A Fair Maiden," published today, is a novella about lower-class 16-year-old Katya, a nanny, and the affluent Mr. Kidder, a much older, white-haired...

The latest issue of Narrative Magazine includes an excerpt from Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives. placeAd2(commercialNode,'midarticleflex',false,'')Exclude From Table of Contents Excl...

1. This expressionist portrait of Joyce Carol Oates is one of many interpretations of modern authors by Swedish artist Carl Kohler, who died in 2006. 2. If you prefer cute to modern expressionist, here’s John Pupdike on Etsy. 3. Sa...

Narrative magazine’s Web site has an essay by Joyce Carol Oates on her literary mentors—a lengthy piece, considering her argument is that she’s had few such people in her life. (Even her first husband, Raymond Smith, read almost non...

STOCKHOLM — Americans Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth join Israel's Amos Oz at the top of the buzz surrounding the Nobel Prize in literature, especially after the most prominent judge broke from his predecessor and said U.S. write...

Joyce Carol Oates is one of those rare literary luminaries whose creative output has matched her critical praise. Sure, her endless catalog of novels, short-story collections, plays, and poetry can come across as a bit daunting, but...

The Literary Saloon brings news that online oddsmaker Ladbrokes is taking bets on who will win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here are the odds: Amos Oz 4/1 Assia Djebar 5/1 Luis Goytisola 6/1 Joyce Carol Oates 7/...

1. “Detroit Housewife Writes Play”. That’s how Joyce Carol Oates says she was received as a young beginning writer as she reminisced during a special event Monday night at the Smithsonian Institution. I’ve heard this writer speak...

The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson: Joyce Carol Oates considers We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

MATT WELCH ON JOYCE CAROL OATES ON MARY JO KOPECHNE: “The ends are always worth a few strangled means, especially to those wielding or sympathizing with power. If you’re openly musing whether the unwilling, unjust sacrifice of an i...

When Melissa Lafsky–whose blog Opinionistas.com, I hear, "became internationally known for its relentless skewering of the corporate world"–wrote about Mary Jo Kopechne over at The Huffington Post the following hideous phrase:Who kn...

"What is one to think?"

Joyce Carol Oates recalls the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “unconscionable, despicable, unmanly and inexplicable behaviour” at Chappaquiddick, and questions whether decades of good behavior as a senator atones for it. This is the “WOR...