Volume 54, Number 20 · December 20, 2007
The Wand of the Enchanter
By Michael Dirda
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982
edited by Greg Johnson
Ecco, 509 pp., $29.95
The Gravedigger's Daughter
by Joyce Carol Oates
Ecco, 582 pp., $26.95
The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
Otto Penzler/Harcourt, 229 pp., $24.00
Joyce Carol Oates: Conversations, 1970–2006
edited by Greg Johnson
Ontario Review Press, 249 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Joyce Carol Oates still bothers people—in all kinds of ways. For more than forty-five years she has been steadily producing novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays. Between the beginning of 2000 and the end of 2005 she published nineteen books. She has written over seven hundred short stories, more than Maupassant, Kipling, and Chekhov combined. There can't be many literary quarterlies or little magazines in which Oates hasn't appeared. They range from Agni to Zoetrope, and include both Family Circle and Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review and Cosmopolitan.
Review, 4040 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |