Joyce Carol Oates Talks About Learning To Craft A Story

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  • The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0199744394
    • ISBN: 0199744394
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of nearly sixty tales that combines classic works with many "different, unexpected" gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can't be ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442155878
    • ASIN: 0618155872
    • ISBN: 0618155872
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to la... [Read More]

  • I Am No One You Know: Stories

    • UPC: 201560592893
    • ASIN: 0060592893
    • ISBN: 0060592893
    • Brand: Oates, Joyce Carol
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with... [Read More]

  • Dear Husband,: Stories

    • ASIN: 0061704318
    • ISBN: 0061704318
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    “[Oates] has once again held a haunting mirror up to America, revealing who we are.”—Boston Globe The inimitable Joyce Carol Oates returns with Dear Husband—a gripping and moving story collection that powerfully re-imagines the meaning of family in America, often through violent means. Oates, a former recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for... [Read More]

  • Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

    • ASIN: 1598530720
    • ISBN: 1598530720
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny... [Read More]

  • High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006

    • ASIN: 0060501197
    • ISBN: 9780060501198
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    An unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oates's short stories combined with eleven new storiesNo other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oates's seminal collections, including The Wheel of Love (1970), Marriages and Infidelities (1972), and... [Read More]

  • Wild Nights! Deluxe Edition: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (Art of the Story)

    • ASIN: 0061434825
    • ISBN: 9780061434822
    • Brand: Oates, Joyce Carol
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’ imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a deluxe paperback edition in Ecco’s The Art of the Story Series.Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens (“Mark Twain”), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of thes... [Read More]

  • Faithless: Tales of Transgression

    • ASIN: B000FC11OW
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

  • Small Avalanches and Other Stories

    • ASIN: 006001217X
    • ISBN: 006001217X
    • Manufacturer: HarperTeen

    When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger and exults in her newfound power, surviving the firs... [Read More]

  • Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

    • ASIN: 1455563927
    • ISBN: 9781455563920
    • Brand: Grand Central Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSH... [Read More]

  • Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque

    • ASIN: 0452273749
    • ISBN: 0452273749
    • Manufacturer: Plume

  • Sourland: Stories

    • ASIN: 006199653X
    • ISBN: 006199653X
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    “Oates is a fearless writer.” —Los Angeles Times “Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds.”—Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s preeminent aut... [Read More]

  • The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Harvest Book)

    • ASIN: 0156030276
    • ISBN: 0156030276
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in “So Help Me God.” Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In “Madison at Guignol” an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insis... [Read More]

  • Beautiful Days: Stories

    • ASIN: 0062795791
    • ISBN: 0062795791
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize–winning “Undocumented Alien”The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in ... [Read More]

  • The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction

    • ASIN: 0061661589
    • ISBN: 0061661589
    • Brand: Oates, Joyce Carol/ Beha, Christopher R.
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American mastersEdited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" (Buffalo News), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • American Gothic Tales (William Abrahams)

    • ASIN: 0452274893
    • ISBN: 0452274893
    • Brand: Plume Books
    • Manufacturer: Plume

  • We Were the Mulvaneys (Oprah's Book Club)

    • ASIN: 0452282829
    • ISBN: 0452282829
    • Manufacturer: Plume

  • The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759447169
    • ASIN: 0486447162
    • ISBN: 0486447162
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features short stories by great 19- and 20th-century writers from America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Western Europe. Included are Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," in which two waiters and a lonely customer in a Spanish cafe confront the concept of nothingness; "A &... [Read More]

  • Surprise Ending (Kindle Single)

    • ASIN: B076WY95WF
    • Manufacturer: Amazon Original Stories

    The number one priority for Bradley Reynolds of Maryland’s Organized Crime Taskforce is Andre Hector Federico. The mob boss is old school—a devoted family man, treacherous as hell, and paranoid enough to have escaped Reynolds’s sting. Now Reynolds has a new plan: enlist prize-winning crime novelist Alan Seybold to concoct a foolproof chapter-... [Read More]

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