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...Joyce Carol Oates is stunned to find me at the restaurant. Just minutes before, she was told that all the trains between New York and Princeton, New Jersey, had been cancelled....
...Joyce Carol Oates’ Zero-Sum (Fourth Estate, 9 hrs 45 mins), presented by an array of highly proficient readers, offers tense narratives, variously filled with tales of seduction, revenge and — in the collection...
...Carol Oates”) to the “long and generous” working lunch....
...Ellroy is not Jacqueline Rose or Joyce Carol Oates, out to reclaim Monroe as a feminist icon....
...“Only the weak fall in love, they see no way of living otherwise,” writes Joyce Carol Oates in her new novel Babysitter....
...If you want to understand what led the American novelist Joyce Carol Oates to Marilyn Monroe, start with a small farmhouse in Millersport, New York. This is where Oates grew up....
...World) — A history of a vintage orange Lambo found in Oregon (WSJ) — Studying markets for materials deemed “critical” for low-carbon tech (LSE) — Rewriting Roald Dahl (Telegraph, a long news cycle, Joyce...
...In the sense that Madonna, with her constant churn of images and styles, is like a female Bowie, we might see her as a Mick, and when reading an FT interview with Joyce Carol Oates, it struck me that she...
...One good read A great interview with Joyce Carol Oates: “You suddenly realise that the human experience is going to be your experience. When that starts to happen to you, it is quite stunning.”...
...The literary flights of Joyce Carol Oates’ source novel give way to the headbangingly literal. De Armas, a gifted actress, is adrift....
...Objects include a stack of her favourite books, including Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland; her IBM Wheelwriter 5 typewriter (estimate...
...“Breathe” by Joyce Carol Oates is published by 4th Estate Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Over a lifetime, authors such as King or Joyce Carol Oates (58 novels across several literary genres) have proved that prolific writers can have the same success rate as slow-burn writers....
...The other means of turning public opinion are alternative commentators: actress Susan Sarandon, climate scientist Michael Mann and author Joyce Carol Oates have all said their piece in support on Twitter...
...Or at least this seems to be the case according to Cardiff, by the Sea, Joyce Carol Oates’ splendidly chilling quartet of previously unpublished novellas....
...Blending the satire of the cult film Clueless with the melancholy of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides and the shock tactics of Joyce Carol Oates’ Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang, the book is a...
...Or, to quote the writer Joyce Carol Oates: “Creative work, like scientific work, should be greeted as a communal effort — an attempt by an individual to give voice to many voices, an attempt to synthesise...
...Opinions about television are ten a penny, and you can get them anywhere; if it’s Moore’s opinion I’d rather hear it on John Cheever or Joyce Carol Oates or Dawn Powell....
...“Rarely attempted, and still more rarely successful, is the bibliomemoir,” began Joyce Carol Oates in her 2014 review of Rebecca Mead’s personal journey around George Eliot, My Life in Middlemarch....
...The new film is an erotic thriller called L’Amant double, adapted from a book by American writer Joyce Carol Oates; it will premiere at Cannes in May. Can he reveal any more? “No....
...The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age, by Joyce Carol Oates, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/Ecco $27.99, 368 pages...
...Liebling was drawn to boxing, but so were Joyce Carol Oates and William Hazlitt, neither of whom is easily pictured doing high-speed pad work amid buckets of bloodied spit in a basement gym....
...As the novelist Joyce Carol Oates observed, boxing is so full of agon (an ancient Greek word simultaneously meaning struggle and competition) that you don’t play it as you play basketball or soccer; you...
...Carthage, by Joyce Carol Oates, Fourth Estate, RRP£14.99, 400 pages In New York state’s Adirondack Mountains, the search is on for 19-year-old Cressida Mayfield....
...When Joyce Carol Oates, a friend, declared that Martha was Updike’s “equal in every way”, Begley cattily comments of some notes to friends from Martha: “To judge from the brisk confidence of those postscripts...
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