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Leave it to Joyce Carol Oates — full-time genius, part-time troll — to drop a 700-plus-page novel about abortion just in time for the most dramatic, divisive regime change in our country’s recent ...

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Now well into her 80s, prolific American author Joyce Carol Oates keeps cranking out the books, most recently the disturbing novel “Butcher.” The author of more than 50 novels, including “Blonde, ” a ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— Author Joyce Carol Oates will give a reading at Bard College in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents on Monday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. Oates is a recipient of the National ...

Writer and X (formerly Twitter) provocateur Joyce Carol Oates will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Decatur Book Festival (DBF), set for Oct. 4-5, organizers announced last week. Oates, 85, is ...

Even as a small girl, there were signs that Joyce Carol Oates was going to become a writer. She preferred reading over playing and spent many hours with her Crayolas, drawing scenes from "Alice's ...

Oates called the film, in a tweet, "an exquisite portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Ana de Armas & director Andrew Dominic." Oates called the film “an exquisite portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Ana de Armas & ...

Author Joyce Carol Oates says her family’s denial of its Jewish roots haunted her for decades and has shaped her into the famously prolific writer she is today. Oates, who is making her first-ever ...

On Sept. 23, the long-awaited Andrew Dominik-directed adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ bestseller “Blonde,” about the desperate life of Norma Jeane Baker, performing as Marilyn Monroe, will be ...

Author Ben Fountain of Dallas has been named the winner of the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Fountain is the author of "Devil Makes Three" and "Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk." Jae S. Lee / 2018 File ...