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June 16, 1938
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The New York Times reports that in 2015 Joyce Carol Oates will, reluctantly, retire from Princeton University, where she has taught creative writing for more than 35 years.
read more »I can understand that any institution leans toward phasing out more senior faculty, so that younger faculty can be hired, usually at lower salaries. This is all very transparent and sensible and it would be very wrong of me...
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We Were the Mulvaneys
— published 1996 — 37 editions |
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The Falls
— published 2004 — 34 editions |
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
— published 2007 — 31 editions |
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Blonde
— published 2000 — 27 editions |
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Foxfire
— published 1993 — 15 editions |
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Zombie
— published 1995 — 21 editions |
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Black Water
— published 1992 — 20 editions |
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Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
— published 1977 — 8 editions |
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Missing Mom
— published 2005 — 24 editions |
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Big Mouth and Ugly Girl
— published 2002 — 28 editions |
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April 2009,
Joyce Carol Oates
"I consider myself a thoroughly American writer in the tradition of the great psychological realists—Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James—who nonetheless delve into the mythic and emblematic. Some of my "gothic" fiction is akin to Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote of the nightmare side of America while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge anything remotely historical, timely, or local in his fiction." ...More
"I consider myself a thoroughly American writer in the tradition of the great psychological realists—Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James—who nonetheless delve into the mythic and emblematic. Some of my "gothic" fiction is akin to Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote of the nightmare side of America while steadfastly refusing to acknowledge anything remotely historical, timely, or local in his fiction." ...More
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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates
― Joyce Carol Oates
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