21. Personal Best: Alice In Wonderland joyce carol oates' take on Lewis Carroll and the Alice books; a part of Salon.com's Personal Best series. http://www.salon.com/weekly/carroll960930.html

BY JOYCE CAROL OATES " A l i c e i n W o n d e r l a n d a n d A l i c e T h r o u g h t h e L o o k i n g G l a s s " b y L e w i s C a r r o l l Michael Chabon: The Swimmer by John Cheever Jeffrey Eugenides: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Mary Gaitskill: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Dwight Garner: On the Road by Jack Kerouac Denis Johnson: Fat City by Leonard Gardner Cynthia Joyce: Mating by Norman Rush Gary Kamiya: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Mignon Khargie: Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse Laura Miller: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Joyce Millman: Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Reynolds Price: A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone Andrew Ross: The Castle by Franz Kafka Scott Rosenberg: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Ian Shoales: The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney Joan Smith: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Amy Tan: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Mary Elizabeth Williams: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Cintra Wilson: Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving no work of art so thrills us, or possesses the power to enter our souls deeply and perhaps even irreversibly, as the "first" of its kind. The luminous books of our childhood will remain the luminous books of our lives.

22. SALON Departments: Lit Chat An interview with the author, discussing her novel, "Zombie," and the concept of books made Category Arts Literature 20th Century oates, joyce carol......joyce carol oates, the prolific novelist, playwright, poet and critic, hasnever been afraid to explore the darker side of the human psyche. http://www.salon.com/06/departments/litchat.html

J oyce Carol Oates, the prolific novelist, playwright, poet and critic, has never been afraid to explore the darker side of the human psyche. At a recent interview at San Francisco's City Arts and Lecture Series, she talked about her most recent novel, "Zombie," which is told from the perspective of a serial sex killer. A collection of her short stories, "Will You Always Love Me and Other Stories," will be published by Dutton in February. Was it difficult for you as a writer to imagine the voice of a serial killer? How were you able to do this so effectively? Earlier I had envisioned the serial killer standing in front of an audience, and it would be like a theatrical, dramatic monologue. The human voice, and the ways in which the human being expresses him or herself in the theatrical setting, is very interesting to me. Often people standing in front of an audience say things and reveal things about themselves that they would never even dream of revealing in a more intimate situation. Nor would they think of these things if they were alone. There's some strange perhaps it's an atavistic response, maybe it's not understood at all. I don't have any problem with that. Most of the difficulty I have is with the form. To find the sentence, the unit of speech, and how long or how short should the chapter be. Should the novel be in three parts or two parts? Should it have an epilogue and a prologue? All my work is very architecturally structured.

23. New York State Writers Institute - Joyce Carol Oates A short biography of the author, with quotes from reviews, appearances at the Institute, and an audio clip of the author on writing. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/oates.html

Joyce Carol Oates Hear Joyce Carol Oates talk about her writing. Joyce Carol Oates is one of the United States most prolific and versatile contemporary writers. With a writing career that spans 25 years, Oates is the author of more than 70 books including novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, literary criticism and essays. Her writing has earned her much praise and many awards including the National Book Award for her novel them (1969), the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O'Henry Prize for Continued Achievement in the Short Story, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Lifetime Achievement Award in Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, and in 1978, membership in the American Academy Institute. She also has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. American Appetites Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart The Rise of Life on Earth Heat: And Other Stories Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

24. JOYCE CAROL OATES: THE MAGNANIMITY OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights by joyce carol oates Originallypublished in Critical Inquiry Winter 1983 Reprinted in The http://storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/wuthering.html

The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights by Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in Critical Inquiry Winter 1983 Reprinted in The Profane Art : Essays and Reviews Printed by permission Once upon a time, it seems, an English clergyman born Brunty or Branty, self-baptized the more romantic Bronte, brought home to his four children a box of twelve wooden soldiers. The children lived in isolation in a parsonage high on the Yorkshire moors, which is to say, at the edge of the world; each was possessed of an extraordinarily fecund imagination; the wooden soldiers soon acquired life and identities (among them the Duke of Wellington and Bonaparte). The way by which a masterpiece as unanticipated as Wuthering Heights of words, but the imagination is expansive enough to accommodate both the child's fantasies and the stratagems of the adult. Out of that long-lost box of wooden soldiers, or its forgotten equivalent, we have all sprung. It is not simply in contrast to its origins that Wuthering Heights As a historical novel, published in 1847, "narrated" by Lockwood in 1801-1802, and encompassing an interior story that begins in the late summer of 1771

25. Creative Quotations From Joyce Carol Oates (1938-____) Quotes from joyce carol oates to inspire your creative thinking http://creativequotations.com/one/1197.htm

CQ Home Search CQ Random CQ Search eLibrary ... Bemorecreative Creative Quotations from . . . Joyce Carol Oates (1938-) born on Jun 16 US novelist, poet, educator. She is a prolific novelist who wrote the award-winning "Them," 1969 and Bellefleur, 1980. Rent Clean Movies Random Quotes Book Close Outs Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it. We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone its value is incontestable. Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. Click here for more search engines and links to biographical websites The World's Largest Poster and Print Store All Categories Books ISBN (best) Title Author Clearance Movies DVD VHS Merchandise Sell Texts: Enter an ISBN The most comprehensive image search on the web.

26. JOYCE CAROL OATES : ON IRIS MURCOCH joyce carol oates on Iris Murdoch. http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/murdoch.html

IM Visit Iris Murdoch on the web: Iris Murdoch JCO Sacred and Profane Iris Murdoch by Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in the New Republic, Novermber 18, 1978 Reprinted in The Profane Art Though Iris Murdoch has defined the highest art as that which reveals and honors the minute, "random" detail of the world, and reveals it together with a sense of its integrity, its unity and form, her own ambitious, disturbing, and eerily eccentric novels are stichomythic structures in which ideas, not things, and certainly not human beings, flourish. In the beginning is the Word. The Sea, The Sea The Time of the Angels and The Italian Girl, inferior works; and unresolved, troubling, provocative endings, as in A Word Child, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, Henry and Cato and The Sea, The Sea The Sea, The Sea, a retired playwright and director who has achieved great fame in England, but who sees himself, correctly, as an egotist and a rapacious magician, is charged by a former admirer with having created nothing genuine, nothing of permanent value: Charles Arrowby is a master of dazzling ephemera, nothing more, and now that his power is fading he will soon be forgotten. Like Hilary Burde of A Word Child and, to some extent, the overly prolific, death-haunted novelist Montague Small of

27. JOYCE CAROL OATES : BIOGRAPHY A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY from Greg Johnson's A Reader's Guide to the Recent Novels ofJoyce carol oates Copyright © 1996 by Greg Johnson (printed by permission). http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/jco.bio.html

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY from Greg Johnson's A Reader's Guide to the Recent Novels of Joyce Carol Oates (printed by permission) Joyce Carol Oates has often expressed an intense nostalgia for the time and place of her childhood, and her working-class upbringing is lovingly recalled in much of her fiction. Yet she has also admitted that the rural, rough-and-tumble surroundings of her early years involved "a daily scramble for existence." Growing up in the countryside outside of Lockport, New York , she attended a one-room schoolhouse in the elementary grades. As a small child, she told stories instinctively by way of drawing and painting before learning how to write. After receiving the gift of a typewriter at age fourteen, she began consciously training herself, "writing novel after novel" throughout high school and college. Success came early: while attending Syracuse University on scholarship, she won the coveted Mademoiselle fiction contest. After graduating as valedictorian, she earned an M.A. in English at the University of Wisconsin, where she met and married Raymond J. Smith after a three-month courtship; in 1962, the couple settled in Detroit, a city whose erupting social tensions suggested to Oates a microcosm of the violent American reality. Her finest early novel, them , along with a steady stream of other novels and short stories, grew out of her Detroit experience. "Detroit, my 'great' subject," she has written, "made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am—for better of worse."

28. JOYCE CAROL OATES : ON STEPHEN KING Transcript from joyce carol oates' introduction to Stephen King prior to his first reading at Princeton University. http://storm.usfca.edu/~southerr/king.html

On April 16, 1997, Joyce Carol Oates introduced Stephen King on the occasion of his first reading at Princeton University It's my pleasure, and an honor, to be introducing Stephen King on his first visit to Princeton. It's commonly said that certain individuals, notably the famous, need no introductions. On the contrary, I think, it's precisely those whom we imagine we know, in broad stereotypical terms, who require introductions. There are: Stephen King the individual, Stephen King the literary/cultural phenomenon, and Stephen King the writer. Salem's Lot, Dolores Claiborne, Carrie, in 1973. At the time he was working in a laundry (See "The Mangler") for $1.60 an hour. ...Since then, Stephen's hourly wages have risen considerably. In his richly informative study of the horror genre in America, Danse Macabre (1980), Stephen King isolates an hour in 1957 when, as he sat in an audience of excited young people in a movie house showing "Earth vs. The Flying Saucers," the film was interrupted and the house manager made an announcement that the Russians had put a space satellite in orbit around the earth, called Sputnik. "We sat there," King says, "in absolute tomblike silence." This sudden terrifying intrusion of a world of adult political drama and potential doom, in the midst of science-fiction fantasy, made a powerful impression upon the 10-year-old Stephen King. The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Carrie (a Gothic tale of familial and societal revenge)

29. JOYCE CAROL OATES : THE DEATH THROES OF ROMANTICISM Essay on the poetry of Sylvia Plath, by joyce carol oates. http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/throes.html

Originally published in Southern Review v9 n3 July, 1973 (Summer) Reprinted in New Heaven, New Earth by Joyce Carol Oates Printed by permission THE DEATH THROES OF ROMANTICISM: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath by Joyce Carol Oates The eye of a little god. . . . Plath, Mirror T The Colossus The Bell Jar Ariel (1965), and the posthumous volumes published in 1971, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees. Narcissi Lawrence said in Apocalypse that when he heard people complain of being lonely he knew their affliction: ". . . they have lost the Cosmos." It is easy to agree with Lawrence, but less easy to understand what he means. Yet if there is a way of approaching Plath's tragedy, it is only through an analysis of what Plath lost and what she was half-conscious of having lost: I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? ("Three Women") We must take this loss as a real one, not a rhetorical echoing of other poets' cries; not a yearning that can be dismissed by the robust and simple-minded among us who like that formidably healthy and impossible Emerson, sought to dismiss the young people of his day "diseased" with problems of original sin, evil, predestination, and the like by contemptuously diagnosing their worries as "the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping-coughs" ("Spiritual Laws"). Emerson possessed a consciousness of such fluidity and explorative intelligence that any loss of the cosmos for him could seem nothing more serious than an adolescent's perverse rebelliousness, at its most profound a doubt to be answered with a few words.

30. Granta: 'Softcore' By Joyce Carol Oates Full text of a short story, Softcore, by the author. http://www.granta.com/extracts/1929

Sign in Create an account Help Latest issue ... Advertising 'Softcore' Joyce Carol Oates A tale of sibling rivalry: They were two sisters of youthful middle age with three breasts between them and a history that might be summed up as much left unsaid. 'Why are you showing me these?' 'I thought you should know.' 'Should know what?' They were two sisters of youthful middle age with three breasts between them and a history that might be summed up as much left unsaid . Maggie, the elder, who'd had a mastectomy eighteen months before, rarely alluded to the fact in her younger sister's company and spoke with an air of startled reproach if Esther brought up the subject of her health; as if Maggie's breast cancer were a symptom of a moral weakness, a deficiency of character, about which Esther had no right to know. Eighteen months before, after the removal of Maggie's left breast, Esther had driven 370 miles to see her sister and was immediately rebuffed by Maggie's steely good humour, just as, when they were girls, she'd been outplayed on the tennis court by Maggie's remarkable cannon-ball serves and vicious returns. In her hospital bed, in the presence of Maggie's husband Dwight, Maggie had assured Esther, indicating the bulky-bandaged left side of her chest, 'Hey, sweetie, don't look like a funeral. It's no great loss, I wasn't planning on using it again.' 'Was this funny? Esther had managed to smile, weakly.

31. Oates, Joyce Carol oates, joyce carol. oates, joyce carol, 1938–, American author, b. Lockport,NY, grad. BA, Syracuse Univ., 1960, MA, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1961. http://www.factmonster.com/ce5/CE038003.html

Encyclopedia Oates, Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Carol, An extraordinarily prolific writer, Oates has published dozens of novels. They include With Shuddering Fall (1964); a trilogy: A Garden of Earthly Delights Expensive People (1968), and them Wonderland Childwold Cybele Bellefleur Solstice Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart What I Lived For (1994); and My Heart Laid Bare (1998). Her numerous short stories are collected in Wheel of Love A Sentimental Education Heat Will You Always Love Me? (1996), and other volumes. Oates has also published several thrillers under the name Rosamond Smith, plus poems, literary criticism, and a book on boxing (1988). See L. Milazzo, ed., Conversations With Joyce Carol Oates (1989); biography by G. Johnson (1998); study by E. G. Friedman (1980). oasis Oates, Titus AD AD AD AD AD Print this page Cite this page Awards and Press Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search ... Privacy

32. 42768. Oates, Joyce Carol. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 NUMBER 42768. QUOTATION The worst cynicism a belief in luck. ATTRIBUTION JoyceCarol oates (b. 1938), US author. Do What You Will, pt. 2, ch. 15 (1970). http://www.bartleby.com/66/68/42768.html

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33. Marooned In Dallas - Marooned In Dallas By Joyce Carol Oates The author reads her poem. http://slate.msn.com/?id=3413

34. Oates, Joyce Carol. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. oates, joyce carol. 2. See L. Milazzo, ed., Conversations with joyce caroloates (1989); biography by G. Johnson (1998); study by EG Friedman (1980). 3. http://www.bartleby.com/65/oa/Oates-Jo.html

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35. The Little Whip By Joyce Carol Oates The author reads her poem. http://slate.msn.com/?id=2062237

36. Booklist: Oates, Joyce Carol. Big Mouth & Ugly Girl. oates, joyce carol. Big Mouth Ugly Girl. May 2002. 272p. HarperCollins,$16.95 (006-623756-4); lib. ed., $16.89 (0-06-623758-0). Gr. 8–up. http://www.ala.org/booklist/v98/my2/61oates.html

Booklist Youth v.98 Books for Older Readers Nonfiction Fiction Books for Middle Readers Nonfiction Fiction Books for the Young Nonfiction Fiction Booklist Archive Booklist Index ... ALA Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine Oates, Joyce Carol. Michael Cart (Booklist/May 15, 2002) Top of Page Youth Booklist Index Booklist Archive ... ALA Home Page How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine

37. Double Portrait - Double Portrait By Joyce Carol Oates The author reads her poem. http://slate.msn.com/?id=3380

38. Oates, Joyce Carol. Broke Heart Blues. How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine oates, joyce carol. Broke HeartBlues. July 1999. 384p. Dutton, $24.95 (0525-94451-6). It http://www.ala.org/booklist/v95/adult/my1/02oates.html

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