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Joyce Carol Oates

Author of We Were the Mulvaneys

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About the Author

Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were show more the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography) Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most eminent and prolific literary figures and social critics of our times. She has won the National Book Award and several O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. Among her other awards are an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Lifetime Achievement Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. (Publisher Provided) show less
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Series

Works by Joyce Carol Oates

We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) 6,109 copies
Blonde (2000) 2,128 copies
The Falls (2004) 1,955 copies
The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007) 1,678 copies
Black Water (1992) 1,225 copies
Zombie (1995) 1,196 copies
Them (1969) 1,111 copies
Missing Mom (2005) 983 copies
The Accursed (2013) 928 copies
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl (2002) 865 copies
Middle Age: A Romance (2001) 789 copies
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Editor, Contributor & Introduction — 774 copies
Bellefleur (1980) 743 copies
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Editor — 743 copies
The Tattooed Girl (2003) 742 copies
You Must Remember This (1987) 740 copies
Rape: A Love Story (2003) 734 copies
Black Girl/White Girl (2006) 715 copies
Beasts (2002) 696 copies
A Widow's Story: A Memoir (2011) 646 copies
I'll Take You There (2002) 619 copies
Little Bird of Heaven (2009) 599 copies
Expensive People (1968) 596 copies
Freaky Green Eyes (2003) 562 copies
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) 535 copies
Carthage (2000) 490 copies
Mudwoman (2012) 477 copies
Wonderland (1971) 465 copies
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Editor, Contributor — 457 copies
A Book of American Martyrs (2017) 442 copies
Marya: A Life (1986) 435 copies
A Fair Maiden (2009) 408 copies
What I Lived For (1994) 387 copies
Hazards of Time Travel (2018) 383 copies
Man Crazy (1997) 362 copies
My Heart Laid Bare (1999) 359 copies
Solstice (1985) 356 copies
American Appetites (1988) 353 copies
Mysteries of Winterthurn (1983) 314 copies
On Boxing (1987) 306 copies
Broke Heart Blues (1999) 306 copies
Sexy (2005) 288 copies
A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982) 279 copies
Do With Me What You Will (1973) 272 copies
Heat and Other Stories (1991) 266 copies
The Man Without a Shadow (2016) 253 copies
Dear Husband,: Stories (2009) 247 copies
Daddy Love (2013) 231 copies
Sourland: Stories (2010) 230 copies
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) 229 copies
The Sacrifice (2015) 217 copies
My Life as a Rat (2019) 213 copies
Angel of Light (1981) 210 copies
The Assignation: Stories (1988) 197 copies
The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 (2005) — Editor & Introduction — 188 copies
First Love (1996) — Author — 184 copies
Babysitter (2022) 153 copies
The Rise of Life on Earth (1991) 144 copies
The Best American Essays 1991 (1991) — Editor — 142 copies
Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976) 133 copies
Childwold (1976) 130 copies
Son of the Morning (1978) 129 copies
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Editor; Contributor — 122 copies
Marriages and Infidelities (1972) 118 copies
With Shuddering Fall (1964) 112 copies
Nemesis (1990) 110 copies
Soul/Mate (1984) 109 copies
Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) 108 copies
Breathe (2021) 101 copies
Where Is Here? (1992) 98 copies
Lives of the Twins (1987) 94 copies
Pursuit (2019) 92 copies
Sentimental Education (1980) 88 copies
Take Me, Take Me with You (2004) 88 copies
Unholy Loves (1979) 88 copies
The (Other) You: Stories (2021) 83 copies
Deadly Sins (1994) — Contributor — 83 copies
Night-Side (1977) 83 copies
Prison Noir (2014) — Editor — 79 copies
The Goddess and Other Women (1974) 79 copies
Cybele (1979) 77 copies
Snake Eyes (1992) 75 copies
Double Delight (1997) 71 copies
Woman Writer (1988) 69 copies
By the North Gate (1963) 65 copies
Crossing the Border (1974) 62 copies
Miao Dao (2018) 61 copies
New Jersey Noir (2011) — Editor — 59 copies
Best New American Voices 2003 (2002) — Guest Editor — 58 copies
American Melancholy: Poems (2021) 58 copies
You Can't Catch Me (1996) 56 copies
Raven's Wing (1986) 54 copies
Last Days (1984) 52 copies
Blood Mask (2006) 44 copies
Zero Sum: Stories (2023) 43 copies
The Sign of the Beast (2017) 42 copies
Where Is Little Reynard? (2003) 42 copies
Time Traveler (1987) 42 copies
The Hungry Ghosts (1975) 40 copies
The Stolen Heart (2005) 39 copies
New Heaven New Earth (1974) 37 copies
Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction (1973) — Editor — 34 copies
Mystery, Inc. (2014) 32 copies
Foxfire [1996 film] (2000) — Based on the novel by — 30 copies
Come Meet Muffin (1998) 27 copies
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Editor & Introduction — 25 copies
The fabulous beasts : poems (1975) 24 copies
The Rescuer (2012) 23 copies
Twelve Plays (1991) 22 copies
Contraries: Essays (1981) 19 copies
Joyce Carol Oates (2005) 18 copies
Naughty Cherie! (2008) 17 copies
Tenderness (1996) 16 copies
Extenuating Circumstances (2022) 16 copies
I stand before you naked (1991) 14 copies
The Pursuit (2019) 14 copies
Miracle Play (1974) 12 copies
Angel Fire: Poems (1973) 11 copies
Figli randagi (1995) 11 copies
New Plays (1998) 11 copies
The New Kitten (2019) 10 copies
Nightwalks (1982) 10 copies
Corky (1996) 9 copies
Demon and Other Tales (1996) 9 copies
The Perfectionist (1994) 8 copies
Johnny Blues (2002) 7 copies
Invisible Woman (1982) 7 copies
The Bingo Master (1992) 6 copies
The Truth Teller (1994) 6 copies
In Darkest America (1991) 6 copies
Family 4 copies
Norman and the Killer (1980) 4 copies
The Crossing 4 copies
Transgressions, Volume One [audio] (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies
Mastiff 4 copies
Tone Clusters 4 copies
Blue-Bearded Lover (1987) 3 copies
Cosmopolitans Winds of Love Romantic (1975) — Contributor — 3 copies
Oates in Exile (1991) 3 copies
Transgressions: Three Brand New Novellas (UK Edition) (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies
SPARROW 45: The Blessing (1976) 3 copies
Mörker och ömhet (2013) 3 copies
The Step-Father 3 copies
The Haunting 3 copies
Femme à la fenêtre (2020) 3 copies
Mike Tyson (2003) 3 copies
Curly Red 3 copies
Butcher (2024) 3 copies
Corps (La cosmopolite) (1973) 2 copies
Landfill 2 copies
Pumpkin Head 2 copies
The Others 2 copies
Blind 2 copies
Un (autre) toi (2022) 2 copies
Respire... (2022) 2 copies
The Doll 2 copies
The Girl (1974) 2 copies
Dans le bleu (2022) 2 copies
Blonde 2 copies
Amerikansk melankoli (2022) 2 copies
Cupid & Psyche 2 copies
Respira (Italian Edition) (2022) 2 copies
Monstresoeur (2023) 2 copies
In Shock 2 copies
Wonderland / Beasts (1971) 2 copies
The Eclipse 2 copies
Sulla boxe (2015) 1 copy
Blonde - V. 02 (2003) 1 copy
Om boksning (1988) 1 copy
Oni 1 copy
Sophie (1900) 1 copy
Maiden 1 copy
De der (2023) 1 copy
INFIELES 1 copy
Nuit, néon (2023) 1 copy
Eles 1 copy
Vittima sacrificale (2006) 1 copy
Das Unerwartete (2022) 1 copy
L'altra te (2022) 1 copy
Kadınlar 1 copy
Le Rendez-vous (1993) 1 copy
Infidèle (2018) 1 copy
Oeil-de-Serpent (1993) 1 copy
Lockender Engel (2001) 1 copy
Panic 1 copy
Face 1 copy
Murder-Two 1 copy
Happiness 1 copy
Funland 1 copy
Daisy 1 copy
Haute Enfance (1979) 1 copy
Unprintable 1 copy
The Hands 1 copy
Labor Day 1 copy
Posthumous 1 copy
Omen 1 copy
Scars 1 copy
Intensive 1 copy
The Temple 1 copy
Death Mother 1 copy
Freaky Sexy (2008) 1 copy
Levo Você Até Lá (2012) 1 copy
The Journey 1 copy
Fauve (2015) 1 copy
LeseLust USA. (1990) 1 copy
Feral 1 copy
Stripping 1 copy
Gay 1 copy
Mistrial 1 copy
Snowfall 1 copy
Wooded Forms 1 copy

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Greg Johnson, ed. Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer, Akashic Books, Brooklyn: NY, 2024.

The book delivers precisely what is promised by the combination of title and subtitle.¹ It delivers more than promised in the sense that the biographer and editor, Greg Johnson, is also the author’s friend—and so the letters are warmer and more wide-ranging than might otherwise be expected from coolly business-like correspondence with a biographer. If you come looking for a heavily-edited, thematically-arranged volume, you’ll be disappointed. The edits are limited and judicious, usually in the form of a short introduction to set the context or clarifying comments enclosed in brackets within the text of the letters to identify people, places, events, and the like that would otherwise be confusing to the reader. The latter are especially important given that we have only the letters to the biographer and not the other half of the conversation. Reading the book is very much like overhearing one half of an ongoing phone conversation with Joyce Carol Oates (JCO) about her spouse, her pets, her colleagues, her work, the publishing world (Vanguard, Random House, Dutton, Norton, Doubleday, Ecco/HarperCollins) and editors, other authors, the theater world, and academic literary circles.

You’ll also be disappointed if you come looking for an unabridged, academic collection or critical edition of the complete correspondence. Elipses within the letters identify missing portions. You’ll have to make your own index if you want to refer back to JCO’s opinions about Toni Morrison, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Truman Capote, Charles Gibson, Janet Malcom, Margaret Atwood, Mike Tyson, Flannery O’Connor, Angelina Jolie, Marilynne Robinson, Saul Bellow, Nabokov, Henry James, Philip Roth, Stephen King, Walter Mosley, P.D. James, Donald Trump, Norman Mailer, Elaine Showalter, Jeanne Halpern, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich, Wallace Stevens, Oprah Winfrey, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Harold Bloom and Cornel West (“masters of bloviation,” p. 291).²

Of special interest throughout the book are the many observations JCO makes in the letters about the writing life, especially the challenge of moving back and forth between plays, short stories, novels (shorter and longer, YA and literary fiction), and poetry. She despairs of ever mastering the novella and she frequently mentions the challenge, even agony, of the first draft vs. the relative ease of revising. (“Yet, to have the facility of a Mozart, to toss work off without any effort at all, would not be much fun,” p. 58. “I expect to glance into a mirror one day & see a blank space with the notice OUT OF PRINT across it,” p. 291)

I am in the very odd (for me) position of reviewing a book about (by?) an author whose work I have not read, except in the occasional New Yorker or Atlantic essay or article in the New York Review of Books. I’ve never read her novels or seen her plays performed. And, frankly, this is probably not the book that one should choose for an introduction to JCO. Better, or at least more likely to be comprehensive for the periods it covers, is the 1998 biography, also by Greg Johnson (Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates). However, this book of letters and subsequent research (especially the November 20, 2023 Profile in the New Yorker by Rachel Aviv, “Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless, Prolific Search for a Self”) intrigues me enough to pursue reading a few of her novels and short story collections as time permits over the next year or so. If that is the criterion, the book was clearly a success.

Contents

Preface by Greg Johnson
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Part One: 1975-1990
Part Two: 1991-1992
Part Three: 1993-1995
Part Four: 1996-1998
Part Five: 1999-2004
Part Six: 2005-2006

Who Should Read It?

Students of JCO who are trying to obtain contextual and biographical information to understand her oeuvre will be interested in the book, as will any hard core fans of either JCO or Greg Johnson. It is not for people like me who have limited to no prior acquaintance with JCO’s work, as there are likely better entrées to that work and summaries of it.

Princetonians should read the book. In addition to JCO, the university and the town (especially the McCarter Theatre) play a prominent role in the correspondence. As someone who spent significant time at Princeton Theological Seminary during the periods covered by the book (1988-1995), I found it a wonderful trip down memory lane. One letter in particular, dated 8 February 1994, with its brief mention of the weather (“Our weather is unspeakable! More snow! Sleet!”) was especially meaningful. We have photos of that horrific winter in which our first daughter was born a week after the letter was penned. The snow never let up.

Upcoming Events at which JCO will Promote the Book:

1 This book was received via LibraryThing Early Reviewers (LTER), a program by which publishers provide advance copies of books for review (or, as in this case, recently published copies—the book was released on March 5 and I was notified that I had “won” it on February 27; I received and started reading it on March 8). The book arrived complete with a Press Kit from Akashic Books with promotional events with Joyce Carol Oates listed from March 18-May 20. LibraryThing does not dictate the content or tone of any reviews, so long as they abide by the Terms of Use publicly posted on the site. This review is my honest opinion.

2 Cornel West actually appears with an interview/essay in the next book I must review, Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future, Rowman & Littlefield: NY, 2023, edited by George Yancy.
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Honestly I was not sure I would get into this book but after focusing I enjoyed immensely. I will not go into detail because you need to read for yourself.
Happy Reading!
 
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isleyteague4 | 1 other review | Mar 8, 2024 |
(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss. Trigger warning for violence, gore, body horror, sexual assault, necrophilia, PTSD, racism, misogyny, and more.)

They were talking about Mrs. Hoffman whose head, it was said, became melon soft from the hammer blows.
"I guess he got tired of her."
"I guess she got fat."
And they laughed in a funny, high voices, like they didn’t mean it but wanted their words to be a shield that would protect them. Protect them from whatever put Mrs. Hoffman at hazard.
("Scarlet Ribbons" by Megan Abbott)

There are upsides. Snails in their own bodies cannot see the stars, but through these borrowed eyes I have now seen them. The stars are magnificent. Perhaps I will have memories of them when I am a snail again, if I am ever permitted that grace. There must be a purpose. I must be learning something. I can’t believe this is all random. I must stay positive until my present skin-and-tissue host wears out. Then my small bright spiral soul will rise and fly through the iridescent clouds and minor-key music of the intermediate spirit realm, to embody itself once more. But as what? Any husk other than this one. Any shell other than this.
("Metempsychosis, or The Journey of the Soul" by Margaret Atwood)

It is true, I did harm to myself. Tearing at my hair & clawing at my face, & rending my garments. It is true, I did harm to my “beauty.” That my “beauty” was not mine to destroy but the possession of my husband was a lesson to be learned. “Hysteria” is caused by a wandering womb, or broken-off parts of the womb circulating through the arteries, most virulent in the brain.
("The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853)" by Joyce Carol Oates)

***

Dedicated to "those Harpies, Furies, Gorgons, and Fates through the centuries who never had a chance to tell their tales," A DARKER SHADE OF NOIR celebrates feminine monstrosity. From a misanthropic young woman who makes a miniature monster (Frankenstein, or Frank for short) out of her skin tags, willing him to haunt the dreams of her insufferable coworkers, to a young girl whose journey into the "night world" inhabited by grownup marks her with red ribbons, much like the ones sung about by her father, these stories are weird, gruesome, and - occasionally - downright obscene.

Like most anthologies, this one's a bit of a mixed bag, with stories ranging from "okay" ("Malena," "Dancing with Mirrors") to "downright unforgettable" ("The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853)," "Gross Anatomy"). If you read just one story, make it Margaret Atwood's "Metempsychosis, or The Journey of the Soul." You'll never look at insects the same way again. Hopefully.

"Frank Jones" by Aimee Bender - 4/5
When an especially tenacious skin tag starts growing - and then regrowing - on her hip, college student Taylor rips it off and begins a collection of them. Some years later, stuck working in a basement office with three people she can't stand, Taylor stitches her assemblage of skin tags into a little person she christens Frank Jones. Whether her discontent with her coworkers (and humanity in general) gives life to Frank, or his nighttime adventures are simply a mass delusion, is anyone's guess. The ending is shockingly cute, though.

"Dancing" by Tananarive Due - 3.5/5
In 1937, Monique's Grand-mère Nadine was a fresh-faced girl of ten who simply wanted to learn ballet. Thwarted then by the white-passing Madame Pinede (and structural racism), eighty-six years later, her "buried dream [w]ould be reborn like a curse in the wake of the dead," as her spirit compels Monique's body to dance.

"Scarlet Ribbons" by Megan Abbott - 3.5/5
About to start sixth grade, Penny is convinced that she has to brave the horrors of the Hoffman house - the sight of a ghastly murder-homicide. ("It was like French kissing. Soon enough, if you hadn’t done it, you were good as dead.") But her adventure into the "night world" inhabited by grownups might prove to be fatal.

"Malena" by Joanna Margaret - 3/5
In which an art student draws inspiration from her newly discovered parasitic twin.

"Dancing with Mirrors" by Lisa Lim - 3/5
A story about beauty, vanity, and female rage.

"Metempsychosis, or The Journey of the Soul" by Margaret Atwood - 5/5
Unsurprisingly, Margaret Atwood's contribution is my favorite story of the bunch. An unsuspecting garden snail is blasted with an eco-friendly insecticide, only to be reincarnated into the (already occupied) body of a twenty-something office worker. Even though conventional (human) wisdom would count this as an advancement, the snail is slowly driven mad by their new, foreign body.
"Metempsychosis" might be meant as a metaphor for the transgender experience, but as a vegan I read it as a criticism of speciesism. Atwood challenges the reader to experience the world through the eyes of a "lowly" snail, resulting in some of the loveliest prose I've ever read.

"Concealed Carry" by Lisa Tuttle - 3/5
When Kelly's temporary job in America is, at the last moment, changed from NYC to Texas, she almost pulls out. She should have pulled out. As the 2nd, 9th, and 14th Amendments collide, she'll soon learn that few people are safe in Texas - especially women of a child-bearing age.

"Gross Anatomy" by Aimee LaBrie - 4/5
This would make a pretty excellent episode of LAW AND ORDER: SVU. I'd give just about anything to see Captain Benson's reaction to the big reveal.
Also, certain passages gave me strong Andrew Glouberman vibes.
No, I will not be offering any further summary.

"Breathing Exercise" by Raven Leilani - 4/5
"It had been eleven years since she’d left home, eight since she’d graduated from a midtier art school and made her name showing audiences how much abuse the human body could withstand. It isn’t sustainable, her mother said, and, technically, she was right."
Suffering from an undiagnosed respiratory affliction, drowning in debt, and risking irrelevance, a Black artist decides to parlay her internet troll into the ultimate - and terminal - performance art piece.

"Muzzle" by Cassandra Khaw - 3.5/5
In an alternate universe where the US Army has weaponized lycanthropy, a young woman wrestles with her newly acquired infection (and a Karen).

"Her Heart May Fail Her" by Yumi Dineen Shiroma - 4/5
Mina waits for her newly-bitten sister Lucy to turn into a vampire - all while fantasizing about killing the immortal girl who turned her.

"The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853)" by Joyce Carol Oates - 5/5
After a bout of self-harm, a woman's husband and father have her committed to the Asylum for Female Lunatics at Trenton, where she's to be treated by the new director, Dr. Silas Weir. Along with a diet that includes mercury, Mrs. Peele is to be swaddled in warm sheets, a bag placed over her head, and restrained in the Chair of Tranquility - to encourage calmness, rest, and a state of utter mental blankness. Subsequent to her release, Mrs. Peele recorded her experiences in her journal, which was discovered after her death.

"The Seventh Bride, or Female Curiosity" by Elizabeth Hand - 4/5
Livey is none too happy when she's conscripted to play the seventh wife of Bluebeard at the Royal Camden Theatre. Sure, it's a big step up from her role as a dancing flower in Harlequin's Honey Moon - but the actor who plays Bluebeard has a bit of a ... "reputation," shall we say. What happens next is a cathartic feminist twist on the Bluebeard folk tale.

"Nemesis" by Valerie Martin - 4/5 stars
When her beloved son Maurice brings a friend from college home with him for the break, Mrs. LeClerc is the only member of her family who is not charmed by the young man. She finds Eric Jeffrey to be irredeemably vain and narcissistic - and likely dangerous, especially to her two daughters, Cici and Henriette. As she is hatching a plan to remove Eric from their lives, fate intervenes, in the most karmic way possible. "Nemesis" is slow to unfold, but the ending is deliciously satisfying.

"Sydney" by Sheila Kohler - 3.5/5
"Sydney" might be the strangest story of the collection - no small feat in an anthology that includes necrophilia. A sheltered young woman living on a game farm in Zimbabwe agrees to marry a wealthy doctor who is passing through for a conference. Once she moves into his home in Johannesburg, she settles into a life that is privileged, yet idle and lonely. She cannot fathom why he married her, as he shows her little affection. Then she stumbles upon a secret room in his library - and the artificial intelligence hidden there. Is the narrator merely decorative, or his latest science experiment?
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I love time travel stories, including this, but I just don't get why she have to go through all that sh*tty things and then it ends that way. I don't get it.
 
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