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New Oates novel sings with life - Examiner

I'm a really big fan of Joyce Carol Oates . What I like about her novels is that she brings a full life to her characters. In Little Bird of Heaven , Oates brings not only her two protagonists to life, but also a whole ...

Literary Drinking Games - New York Times (blog)

Geoff Nicholson’s delightful essay on the thin line between rules for drinking and rules for writing got me trolling the Web in search of some fun literary drinking games. The pickings were surprisingly thin ...

BEA: Day One - Examiner

Unless you’re either not in the publishing industry or are living under a big rock, you are aware that Book Expo America (BEA) , self-billed as “the largest publishing industry event in North America,” opens today ...

I Am Sorry to Inform You - Atlantic Online (blog)

Strictly speaking, I am not impersonating this individual, since “Joyce Carol Oates” doesn’t exist, except as an author-identification. On the spines of books shelved in certain libraries and bookstores you will ...

Sun Messenger Calendar of Events, July 29-Aug. 4 - Cleveland Plain Dealer

National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section, hosts its second Thriftique Showroom, 26055 Emery Road, Warrensville Heights, today, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (216) 378-2264. The Gathering Place ...

Jennifer Weiner is proud to be the queen of chick lit - Chicago Tribune

Jennifer Weiner, the bestselling author of eight books, had been battling traffic for close to an hour before landing at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. With her kids ensconced in an upstairs room, she collapses ...

How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow - Atlantic Online (blog)

One seedy bar on a side street in Key West advertised its wares on a scrawled sign: Live girls upstairs . Beats the alternative, I suppose. With its invariable August weather and (usually more discreet) invitations to ...

My Horizons - American Reporter

AMORI, Japan -- The sublime intelligence of Japanese life is traditionally encapsulated in the highly compressed poetry called the haiku , one that doesn't allow for words that are not filled with meaning. For many here ...

Batman Kidnapped? - Associated Content

One day, while I was in McDonald's, I saw a man enter in a black coat and a black hat. Suddenly I heard a loud BANG... Then everything was dark. After what seemed like a long, long sleep, I found myself ...

LONG ISLAND BOOKS Between Two Worlds - East Hampton Star

(August 5, 2010)When “The Mountain Lion” was first published, in 1947, it created enormous interest and acclaim. Jean Stafford was then one of the popular and esteemed fiction writers in America (though celebrated ...

Open Question: what's a good discussion paper I can type on this movie/book?

I wanted to know what kind of discussion I could have about this movie/book - thank you the book is called "Where are you going, where have you been?" by joyce Carol Oates and the movie is called "Smooth Talk" book: http://jco.usfca.edu/works/wgoing/text.html movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090037/ more

Resolved Question: any other stories like this?

i'm in love with joyce carol oates "where are you going, where have you been?" short story. i have read and analyzed it numerous times. i was wondering if there were any short stories, books, or poems with a similar theme. if you haven't read it, it's a bout a 15 year old girl named Connie who is promiscuous and two older men show up at her house one day and talk her into coming out and going with them. it truly is a great short story and you should check it out if you haven't already. any who, any short stories, poems or novels with this theme? more

Resolved Question: How could a person make you feel completely helpless?

Sorry about the length, but I'm actually making my original question shorter...Y!A doesn't tell you there is a limit for the question details... (Most was just ranting that real Gothics do not fit the stupid stereotypes and certainly are not those annoying teenagers who wear dark hoodies with hair over their faces who call themselves "Goths" and "Satanists" just to scare their parents. Most Gothics are even Satanists! >.<) I'm writing a Gothic psychological/fantasy/romance story, and I need the protagonists to be completely helpless. Anything could help spark an idea, but it would be great if it fits to the storyline... An introverted psychic boy (the hero) is cast out from his adoptive family, and he moves to a old, creepy town and meets the ghost of a murder victim that has been appearing in his nightmares. She wants him to expose her killer, who is still alive and holding her soul captive, but she can only give vague details. It's later revealed that her family ditched her to take in the hero. After that she went to live with a female friend whose psychic brother (the villain) who frequently visited became obsessed with the heroine and murders her so that she could never get away. …And I don’t know the ending yet… T_T Although the ingénue heroine wears Gothic clothing, Gothic literature does not necessarily need to include Gothic fashion. This kind of literature usually includes a creepy setting, a powerful villain, and powerless heroes. And anything taboo! Good examples would be Dracula, Shutter Island, The Phantom of the Opera, Interview with the Vampire, and anything by Edgar Allan Poe. My villain is influenced by Arnold Friend from Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” because they both act so normal and charming at first but start to get more evil and threatening. (If you can, please read his character description on SparkNotes.) Thank you for your time! ^_~ Not for your trolling! >_< more

Resolved Question: What is the worst thing that could ever happen to a person?

Sorry about the length, but I’ll try to keep you entertained. But I’m NOT sorry about the long rant at the end…It’s about atrocious discrimination that few people even notice. It’s something that needs to be heard. Anyway… I'm writing a Gothic psychological/fantasy/romance story, but I'm not quite sure how the plot should progress. So whenever plagued writers-block, the writer needs to find the worst (but fitting) thing that could ever happen to the protagonists and use it to create conflict (a.k.a. torture the characters :P). Please give me suggestions! AND DON’T YOU DARE TROLL ME!! >.< Summary: A kind but introverted psychic boy (the hero), who has been having nightmares of a girl (the heroine) being murdered for years but can only see the girl not the murderer, is cast out from his adoptive family, and he moves to a older, creepy town, with a disturbingly high infant mortality rate (later revealed that the villain is very sadistic so he does that to make the heroine feel like it’s her fault.) He meets the ghost of the victim in his nightmares. She wants him to expose her killer’s identity but can only give vague details like “I thought he was my friend.” (He originally thought she was a ghost from long ago because of her old-fashioned clothes until she says that the murderer is still alive and holding her captive. It turns out that a little after she turned eighteen, her family ditched her to take in the hero. After that she went to live with a female friend. The friend’s psychic brother (the villain) who frequently and increasingly visited became obsessed with the heroine and murders her so that she could never get away. …And I don’t know the ending yet… About Gothic literature… Although my story has a kind and pure ingénue character (the heroine) who wears Gothic clothing, Gothic literature does not necessarily need to include Gothic fashion. It often has horror characteristics, such as vampires, but it is not always a “horror” story. And just because Twilight has vampires, it is not technically “Gothic.” This kind of literature tends to take place in a creepy, mysterious setting, the heroes/victims are powerless against the powerful, tyrannical, often supernatural villain, and just about anything taboo fits in nicely. Ah, and damsels in distress… A few good examples would be Dracula, Shutter Island, The Phantom of the Opera, Interview with the Vampire, and anything by Edgar Allan Poe. My story’s setting is very similar to the manga “Le Portrait de Petit Cossette,” because of the girl being killed and trapped by the villain. (I rarely read manga and never ever watch anime, so don’t call me a nerd!) The villain in the story is influenced by the character Arnold Friend from Joyce Carol Oates’ Gothic short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” A story I highly recommend! My villain is similar to Arnold Friend, because he acts so nice and charming but starts to get more evil and threatening. From "I wanta introduce myself, I'm Arnold Friend and that's my real name and I'm gonna be your friend, honey,” to "This is how it is, honey: you come out and we'll drive away, have a nice ride. But if you don't come out we're gonna wait till your people come home and then they're all going to get it." (Please read his character description at http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been/characters.html) By the way, don't listen to all the crappy stereotypes about Gothic fashion... -The style reemerged through classic rock and is about the centuries-old dark romanticism with old-fashion aspects typically from Medieval, Rococo, Victorian, and Edwardian fashions, so the mall-goth teenagers who wear plain, completely modern dark clothes, wear their hair over their faces, and call themselves "Goths" and "Satanists" just to scare their parents really are NOT Gothic! -Also, most of us are not Satanists---and most Satanists dress in normal clothing. In a way, Gothic fashion is less of a disturbing, Satanist cult than the popular clothing nowadays, because Gothic came from times when almost everybody was Christian and evil was very much frowned upon. Crosses are also many a Gothic's favourite accessories! (My dorm roommates thought I was a Satanist for the whole semester, WHEN I HAD A LARGE CROSS ON MY DESK THE WHOLE TIME. T_T) - Black, grey, and red aren’t the only Gothic colours. White and blue are especially lovely if worn right! (Example of blue Gothic: http://img19.imageshack.us/i/dsc04309h.jpg/) (Example of white Gothic: http://media.photobucket.com/image/hnaoto/Psychoscutter/Gothic%20Lolita/hnaoto94.jpg?o=63) - And every few years Gothic influences (e.g. frilly blouses) will appear in popular trends, so I guess that makes just about everybody a Satanist! :P - We're not trying to "copy" or "imitate" each other. (If you say you think we are, I say yWow... I actually exceeded the maximum amount of characters...lol. And, The Canadian, I said NO TROLLING. more

Resolved Question: Which Authors' books would you recommend (from the list) for a 16 year old?

Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, G. K. Chesterton, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Fussell, Zora Neale Hurston, Samual Johnson, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Vladimir Nabokov, Joyce Carol Oates, George Orwell, George Santayana, George Bernard Shaw, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Virginia Woolf. I am looking for a book that is easy to read but still has enough depth for a nice essay. more

Resolved Question: Recommend some good books for a summer school reading assignment (From a list of specific authors ONLY!)?

I'm going to be in Honors English next year as a Freshman. We have two summer assignments. One we have to read Lord of the Flies. The other we get to choose or book, but it MUST be from the following list of authors. The only two authors Ive heard of are Sarah Dessen & Charles Dickens, neither of which would be my first choice...so if you know of any books by these authors that won't bore me to tears, please suggest them! Authors: Douglas Adams Sherman Alexie Rudolfo Anaya Laurie Halse Anderson Gary Blackwood HG Bissinger Libba Bray Willa Cather Agatha Christie Chris Crutcher Sarah Dessen Charles Dickens Alexandre Dumas Nancy Farmer Gail Giles Nikki Grimes Mark Haddon Ernest Hemingway Frank Herbert Nick Hornby Angela Johnson Robert Jordan Yann Martel Catherine Gilbert Murdock Jaye Murray Margaret Mitchell Han Nolan Joyce Carol Oates George Orwell Terry Pratchett Philip pullman Brent Runyan HD Salinger Joe Simpson Betty Smith Paul Volponi Kurt Vonnegart TH White Jim Wooten Richard Wright Thanks! more

Resolved Question: where are you going, where have you been? by joyce carol oates?

help with analyzing this short story? i understand what happened and everything. but how much further can the reader look into it? suggestions? please and thank you. more

Resolved Question: Which Joyce Carol Oates books have been #1 on the NYT Best Sellers list?

Resolved Question: Shirley Jackson vs. Joyce Carol Oates...who wrote/writes the creepiest horror stories?

Resolved Question: In the book them by Joyce carol oates, what does the title, to whose country have i come relate to the book.?

Resolved Question: Where is Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Shopping" collected?

Has is been re-published in any short story collections? And if not, where was it originally published? more

Resolved Question: Stephanie Meyer question?

Is she really Joyce Carol Oates? more

Resolved Question: When to add apostraphes?

I'm nearly finished with an essay (Me:1 procrastination:0) Xd and as I was prrof reading I realized that when talking about the author and her book, I have no idea what to do with her name! For an example: "Reading the first lines of Joyce Carol Oates story ‘Where are you going, where have you been?’ " as opposed to: "Reading the first lines of Joyce Carol Oates' story ‘Where are you going, where have you been?’" which is the correct form?Thanks Josie ^ ^ Really helped : ) more

Resolved Question: out of the list of these books, which ones did u like the best?

and plz give a small summary if u don't mind im trying to decide which one id like (btw just ignore the 2 seperate lists, they r for my own knowledge. just pretend its one list :D ) List 1::: -In Cold Blood-Truman Capote -Lords of Discipline-Pat Conroy -Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe -A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens -The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoevsky -Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier -Snow Falling on Cedars-David Gunderson -Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy -Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy -Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy -For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway -Portrait of a Lady-James Henry -Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein -Dune-Frank Herbert -The World According to Garp-John Irving -How Green Was My Valley-Richard Llewellyn -One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez -Of Human Bondage-W. Sommerset Maughm -We were the Mulvaneys-Joyce Carol Oates -Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak -We the living-Ayn Rand -Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe List 2::: -A Death in the Family-James Agee -Foundation-Isaac Asimov -Go Tell it on the Mountain-James Baldwin -To Good Earth-Pearl Buck -Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess -Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel -Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway -Demain-Herman Hess -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Turn of the Screw-James Henry -A Splendid Thousand Suns-Khaled Hosseini -Pigs in Heaven-Barbara Kingsolver -Razor's Edge-W.Sommerset Maughm -The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers -Sula-Toni Morrison -Tar Baby-Toni Morrison -The Chosen-Chaim Potok -Hunger of Memory-Richard Rodriguez -The Winthrop Woman-Anya Seton -One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan -Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain -Rabbit,Run-John Updike -Slaughterhouse-Kurt Vonnegut -Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton@hello katie:: i just looked up Slaughterhouse-five and it looks really good! im putting down on my list of possibilities for sure!! :D thanks more

Resolved Question: Why is Joyce Carol Oates' writing so violent?

Did anything traumatic happen in her life?Actually, you should read her works, The Feminine Species for one. They are almost all centered around violence. Im simply wondering if something happened to make her view life so cynically. For instance Edgar Allen Poe witnessed his family's death which caused him to write such graphic novels. more

Resolved Question: Which of Joyce Carol Oates' short stories aren't collected in books?

Resolved Question: I need help choosing a book to read?

I need to read one of these books for my English class. Has anyone read any of these? Are they good? Which one would you recommend? Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart by Joyce Carol Oates The Chosen by Chaim Potok A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler The Conspiracy by John Hersey more

Resolved Question: I need suggestions for books to read?

Resolved Question: "We are beasts and this is our consolation?"?

I just finished reading "Beasts" by Joyce Carol Oates and i loved it, but i'm having a hard time figuring out what "we are beasts and this is our consolation" means in the story. any help with examples would help! Thanks! more

Resolved Question: What is my thesis statement?

I need to write an outline for an examination of Connie in Joyce Carol Oates' story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and explore whether or not she would be a round or flat character. I'm not looking for help writing, or opinions, but part of my outline is to include a thesis statement and I'm not exactly sure how long a thesis statement is. Below is my first paragraph, or part of it, which I'm having trouble discerning what exactly my thesis statement is. Please, could someone identify it for me? In Joyce Carol Oates’ story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” the reader is introduced to a 15 year old girl named Connie, who throughout the story remains flat as opposed to round as a character trait. Throughout the story we are shown Connie’s relationship with her family, particularly her mother with which she does not get along. As the story progresses we see that Connie acts differently around her friends than she does when she is under the watchful eye of her mother. And although Connie does behave differently depending on whose company she is in, she does not change as a character. Ultimately Connie is confronted by the awkwardly twisted character Arnold Friend, and in her confrontation with him we see that although Connie may handle herself differently, she is presented with circumstances which are universal to a human being in her situation. more

Resolved Question: Topics to write about "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates?

I have to write a 6-8 page paper on a short story. This story is the only one that mildly interests me. But I have no idea what topic I could write about relating to it that would fill 6 pages. I have to come up with a research question that's due tomorrow. Any ideas? more

Resolved Question: What are some great works without a clear protagonist?

When a book lacks a protagonist, the reader must personally decide which of the "bad guys" is less bad. They often must side between an amoral vigilante trying to better the world and the person trying to stop the vigilante from doing such. It doesn't matter what type of work it is, as long as it's intriguing; "V for Vendetta" (a graphic novel by Alan Moore), "Death Note" (a manga by Tsugumi Ohba), "Paradise Lost" (an epic poem by John Milton) and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (a short story by Joyce Carol Oates) all revolve around this ambiguous concept. more

Resolved Question: Heart of Darkness question?

Author Joyce Carol Oates has asserted that “Marlow, for all his condescension [toward people of color], represents a degree of humanity not found in the other Caucasian Europeans.” Do you agree? In a paragraph or two, explain why or why not, supporting your position with specific evidence from the novella Does anyone who has read the novella have any ideas on this subject matter. more

Resolved Question: My wife loves this poem. Where does the poem provide with concrete/abstract language?

"Waiting On Elvis" Joyce Carol Oates This place up in Charlotte called Chuck's where I used to waitress and who came in one night but Elvis and some of his friends before his concert at the Arena, I was twenty-six mareid but still waiting tables and we got to joking around like you do, and he was fingering the lace edge of my slip where it showed below my hemline and I hadn't even seen it and I slapped at him a little saying, You sure are the one aren't you feeling my face burn but he was the kind of boy even meanness turned sweet in his mouth. Smiled at me and said, Yeah honey I guess I sure am. I APPRECIATE IT! more

Resolved Question: How does one go about publishing their poetry and stories?

I have enjoyed writing stories and poetry since I was 13. I enjoy writing but I also want to be a recognized writer. There is nothing wrong with being well known like Stephen King,Joyce Carol Oates,Dorothy Allison,etc. Is self publishing good? PLEASE IF YOU'RE GOING TO PUT ME DOWN FOR ENJOYING WRITING AND WANTING TO BE RECOGNIZED LIKE STEPHEN KING AND OTHER GREAT WRITERS OUT HERE, THEN PLEASE DON'T BOTHER ANSWERING.I JUST WANT TO GET MY WORK PUBLISHED.I WRITE BECAUSE I ENJOY WRITING AND I WANT TO BE A WRITER. more

Resolved Question: What Does a car typically symbolize to teenagers ?

can someone help me with this question, i am reading a story called where are you going, where have you been? by joyce carol oates more

Resolved Question: "Kite Poem" by Joyce Carol Oates ... 10 Points Best Answer!!!!!!!!!?

Hi, I am currently reading "Kite Poem", by Joyce Carol Oates, and am wondering what you guys thought the poem was about, as well as any figurative language that was observed. Here is the poem if you don't know it: Kite Poem for Billy Collins Some- thing there is in the American soul that soars with kites that soar! Some- thing alive with the roar of the wind lifting the kite that soars above rooftops, tree- tops, and awestruck heads! And yet— Something there is not in the American soul to adore the kite that fails to soar. I've seen it, I've feared it, and so have you. The kite whose tail is tattered in the TV antenna. The kite that rises thrillingly at dawn then crashes vertically at your feet. in a heap more

Resolved Question: what are some symbols in Where are you going, Where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates?

Resolved Question: What short story should I write about?

I have to write a 3 page literary essay on a classic short story. I want a short story that's easy to write about. Any stories come to mind? Oh and I'd prefer if you'd pick a story from this list: http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/ :) P.S. These are the stories we've read in class already, so it shouldn't be one of these: John Updike- A&P Flannery O’Connor- A Good Man Is Hard to Find Shirley Jackson- The Lottery W. W. Jacobs- The Monkey’s Paw Guy de Maupassant- The Necklace William Faulkner- A Rose for Emily Kate Chopin- The Story of an Hour Tim O’Brien- The Things They Carried Joyce Carol Oates- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Nathaniel Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown more

Resolved Question: is there any good poem that fits with the story "the most dangerous game" by Richard Connel ?

if you could ... is there for "The Lottery" By shirley jackson? and if you could....is there for "Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce carol Oates??? also if you could........can you state the reason why the poem fits with the story??? more

Resolved Question: What is the proper way to write a conclusion paragraph?

I had a 3-4 page research essay comparing and contrasting the short story "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates with the movie "Smooth Talk" that was loosely based on the short story. I am on the conclusion paragraph now and am having issues. I restated my thesis and the main points that I discussed... but it has only come out to three sentences. My conclusion paragraph needs to be much longer than that (6-8 sentences since this is a college paper). Any tips? more

Resolved Question: creative essay title help?

I'm writing an essay comparing two short stories I read by Joyce Carol Oates.. Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi, and So Help Me God. The topic main topic is women's violence towards men, specifically by seemingly innocent young women. Any creative title ideas?? more

Resolved Question: out of the list of these books, which ones did u like the best? and why?

and plz give a small summary if u don't mind-im trying to decide which one id like:::btw just ignore the 3 lists, just think of it as one; i did the 3 lists for my own knowledge. also im considering Jamica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier and East of Eden by John Steinbeck(have u read either of these? if so did u like it/them?) list 1:: -David Copperfield-charles dickens -the brothers karamozov-fyodor dostoevsky -Fountainhead-ayn rand -Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy -War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy -Trinity-Leon Uris -Mila 18-Leon Uris List 2::: -In Cold Blood-Truman Capote -Lords of Discipline-Pat Conroy -Moll Flanders-Daniel Defoe -Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe -A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens -The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoevsky -Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier -Snow Falling on Cedars-David Gunderson -Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy -Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy -Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy -Catch-22-Joseph Heller -For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway -Portrait of a Lady-James Henry -Stranger in a Strange Land-Robert Heinlein -Dune-Frank Herbert -The World According to Garp-John Irving -How Green Was My Valley-Richard Llewellyn -One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez -Of Human Bondage-W. Sommerset Maughm -We were the Mulvaneys-Joyce Carol Oates -Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak -We the living-Ayn Rand -East of Eden-John Steinbeck -Look Homeward Angel-Thomas Wolfe List 3::: -A Death in the Family-James Agee -Foundation-Isaac Asimov -Go Tell it on the Mountain-James Baldwin -To Good Earth-Pearl Buck -Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess -Jamaica Inn-Daphne Du Maurier -Like Water for Chocolate-Laura Esquivel -Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway -Demain-Herman Hess -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -Turn of the Screw-James Henry -A Splendid Thousand Suns-Khaled Hosseini -Pigs in Heaven-Barbara Kingsolver -Razor's Edge-W.Sommerset Maughm -The Heart is a Lonely Hunter-Carson McCullers -Sula-Toni Morrison -Tar Baby-Toni Morrison -The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath -The Chosen-Chaim Potok -Hunger of Memory-Richard Rodriguez -The Winthrop Woman-Anya Seton -One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Joy Luck Club-Amy Tan -Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-Mark Twain -Rabbit,Run-John Updike -Slaughterhouse-Kurt Vonnegut -Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton more

Resolved Question: Joyce Carol Oates fans...what's your favorite book of hers?

I really liked "Blonde" and "The Gravedigger's Daughter" and her horror short stories are unparalleled...what would you recommend? more

Resolved Question: Where can I find essay Against Nature by Joyce Carol Oates?

I really need to read this essay for my homework assignement. I've been looking everywhere for it! Help will be greatly appreciated!!! more

Resolved Question: Is there any Fan Fiction for "Zombie" by Joyce Carol Oates?

I'm a huge fan of the novel, Zombie, and if you've ever read it, you'd know exactly why. There's something about her portrayal of the main character Q.P. that I find particularly stimulating (in other words, Hot). :) I'd very much so enjoy finding a few fan fictions based on the novel. I knew this would be difficult because most people object to the content of the novel, while others have never heard of it at all. However, I've been searching for quite some time and I'm ready to give up... But not just yet. I could use your help! Several heads are always better than one. If you happen to find any or have done a thorough search and don't believe that there is any, feel free to leave a Answer. However, I'd greatly appreciate it if you don't leave Answers like "I don't know" or "What book is that." :) Its a waste of both of our time. more

Resolved Question: Black Girl/White Girl - Joyce Carol Oates - Have you read it?

I just finished the novel and am having some problems interpreting a few themes. If you have a good grasp on the novel, please let me know! :) more

Resolved Question: Anyone have a website with the entire story of: the lady with the pet dog by joyce carol oates?

I have to write an essay and I need quotes to be in it; therefore I really really need to have the full story [and not a summary] of "the lady with the pet dog" by joyce carol oates and I am unable to find it. Can anyone help me out? Even pictures of the text would be helpful. more

Resolved Question: I need a non fiction book about murder but the author has to be on this list?

or you can just give me some books and i can look for the author i need non fiction books about murder Representative Authors List Autobiographers and Diarists Maya Angelou, James Boswell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Charles Dana, Thomas De Quincey, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, Lillian Hellman, Helen Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, T. E. Lawrence, John Henry Newman, Samuel Pepys, Richard Rodriguez, Richard Wright, Malcolm X, Anzia Yezierska Biographers and History Writers Walter Jackson Bate, James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill, Vine Deloria, Jr., Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Shelby Foote, John Hope Franklin, Antonia Fraser, Edward Gibbon, Richard Holmes, Gerda Lerner, Thomas Macaulay, Samuel Eliot Morison, Francis Parkman, Arnold Rampersad, Simon Schama, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Ronald Takaki, George Trevelyan, Barbara Tuchman Critics Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, Michael Arlen, Matthew Arnold, Kenneth Clark, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Arlene Croce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., William Hazlitt, bell hooks, Samuel Johnson, Pauline Kael, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, George Santayana, George Bernard Shaw, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Wilson Essayists and Fiction Writers Joseph Addison, James Agee, Margaret Atwood, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, G. K. Chesterton, Joan Didion, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paul Fussell, Mavis Gallant, Nadine Gordimer, Edward Hoagland, Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Lamb, Norman Mailer, Nancy Mairs, Mary McCarthy, N. Scott Momaday, Michel de Montaigne, V. S. Naipaul, Tillie Olsen, George Orwell, Cynthia Ozick, Ishmael Reed, Adrienne Rich, Mordecai Richler, Sharman Apt Russell, Scott Russell Sanders, Richard Selzer, Richard Steele, Shelby Steele, Henry David Thoreau, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, E. B. White, Terry Tempest Williams, Virginia Woolf Journalists Roger Angell, Maureen Dowd, Elizabeth Drew, Nora Ephron, M. F. K. Fisher, Frances Fitzgerald, Janet Flanner (Genêt), Ellen Goodman, David Halberstam, Andy Logan, John McPhee, H. L. Mencken, Jan Morris, David Remnick, Red Smith, Lincoln Steffens, Paul Theroux, Calvin Trillin, Tom Wolfe Political Writers Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, William F. Buckley, Jean de Crèvecoeur, W. E. B. DuBois, Margaret Fuller, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, George Kennan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lewis H. Lapham, John Locke, Niccolò Machiavelli, John Stuart Mill, John Milton, Thomas More, Thomas Paine, Olive Schreiner, Jonathan Swift, Alexis de Tocqueville, Gore Vidal, George Will, Garry Wills, Mary Wollstonecraft Science and Nature Writers Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Jacob Bronowski, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Evelyn Fox Keller, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Margaret Mead, John Muir, David Quammen, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, Jonathan Weiner Source: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/repository/52272_apenglocked5_30_4309.pdf more

Resolved Question: Which of these books should I read?

I have to read one of these for my English 4 AP class. I'm a 17 year old guy. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess The Member of the Wedding - Carson McCullers We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates Bel Canto - Ann Patchett Atonement - Ian McEwan All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy The Road - Cormac McCarthy more

Resolved Question: can i read "where are you going where have you been" by joyce carol oates online?

please & thank you. and i don't mean to be a book pirate... i just have to read it by tomorrow and all the bookstores are closed! [as well as the library] and i'm going to buy the book tomorrow anyways. more

Resolved Question: Which of these books should I read first?

I Am Not Esther / Fleur Beale Ordinary Ghosts / Eireann Corrigan Saving Francesca / Melina Marchetta The Lovely Bones / Alice Sebold What if you broke all the rules? / Liz Ruckdeschel Freaky Green Eyes / Joyce Carol Oates Life As We Knew It / Susan Beth Pfeffer Twenties Girl / Sophie Kinsella The betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie / Jaclyn Moriarty Feeling sorry for Celia / Jaclyn Moriarty more

Resolved Question: Whats the setting of the book "Big Mouth and Ugly Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates?

where does the book take place?ph and the point of view.....? 3rd 2nd 1st? more

Resolved Question: does anyone know where i can find the following ebooks?

i'd prefer free, but very cheap would also do. i've looked on numerous torrent sites, esnips, 4shared, etc. and no luck. A Coldness in the Blood - Fred Saberhagen Confirmation- Whitley Strieber The Hunger- Whitley Strieber Golden Apples of The Sun & Other Stories- Ray Bradbury Five Days In London, May 1940- John Lukacs Passage- Connie Willis The Vampire Papers- Michael Romkey The Vampire Princess - Michael Romkey Darker Angels- S.P. Somtow Pugilist At Rest- Thom Jones The Broken Hearts Club- Ethan Black The Final Solution- Earle Rice Eunoia- Christian Bok The Frighteners- Michael Jahn The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams- J. O'Barr & Ed Kramer Teen Angst? Naaah- Ned Vizzini Filth- Irvine Welsh The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys- Chris Fuhrman The Unswept Room- Sharon Olds The Oxford Book Of English Stories- A.S. Byatt Farther Reaches Of Human Nature- Abraham Maslow Checkpoint- Nicholson Baker The Member of The Wedding- Carson McCullers Rear View: Stories- Peter Duval The Truth About Celia- Kevin Brockmeier How The Light Gets In- Maria Hyland Black Coffee and Joni's Blue- Keith Kawasaki Crumbtown- Joe Connelly Well- Matthew McIntosh A Slipping-Down Life- Anne Tyler My Life- Anton Chekhov Mr. Spaceman- Robert Olen Butler Skels- Maggie Dubris Shame- Annie Ernaux Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe- Fannie Flagg American Gothic Tales- Joyce Carol Oates Highwaymen- Jonathan Clements Everybody Smokes In Hell- John Ridley The Mysteries of Pittsburgh- Michael Chabon Safe Harbor- Eugene Izzi Bear V. Shark- Chris Bachelder Just Pretend- J.V. Lewton A Life Less Ordinary- John Hodge You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers The Boy- Naeem Murr Immortality- Milan Kundera Second Hand- Michael Zadoorian The Girl In The Flammable Skirt- Aimee Bender Hot Water Music- Charles Bukowski Pursuit of Happiness: Left Bank- Linny Stovall Burn Collector: Collected Stories- Al Burian The Every Boy- Dana Adam Shapiro Death On The Installment Plan- Louis Celine A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints- Dito Montiel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer The Holy Innocents (aka The Dreamers)- Gilbert Adair Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist- Rachel Cohn No One Belongs Here More Than You- Miranda July The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs- Marcus Boon Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism- Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk The Wanting Seed- Anthony Burgess Against Interpretation And Other Essays- Susan Sontag Why Art Cannot Be Taught- James Elkins Genius And Heroin - Michael Largo 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - John David California Ritual - Mo Hayder Skin - Mo Hayderi tried books on board, but every book i looked up was well over $20, i might as well buy a hard copy! i'm looking for ebooks that are under $5. more

Resolved Question: In my preferred books, do you think Don Quixote would work for me?

I've been wanting so bad to pick up Don Quixote because it makes me curious. We had to read only a very small passage in high school and I thought it was nice, but what about your opinion on the story entirely, the whole book? I read Joyce Carol Oates, young adult, and some general fiction like Tracy Chevalier, Sue Monk Kidd, and Bernhard Schlink, and I've recently dropped reading chic-lits. I know you'd say that why not just give it a try and go for the book, right? But I don't want to go all the way to buying it and be disappointed as I've been with Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach" and others. So, do you think "Don Quixote" would fit my likings? Thanks! more

Resolved Question: Which one of these books is the best, in your opinion?

I'm deciding what to read next out of the books I've accumulated. The options are: Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton The Portable Dorothy Parker- Parker Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Gathering of Old Men- Ernest J. Gaines Three Cups of Tea- Mortenson and Relin We Were the Mulvaneys- Joyce Carol Oates To the Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf Bel Canto- Ann Patchett A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole I Am A Strange Loop- Hofstadter I know, I know. It's quite the collection. I'll read them all eventually, but I'd appreciate any recommendation of what to read next. more

Resolved Question: Is 13 years old too young to read the book Freaky Green Eyes?

It is by the author Joyce Carol OatesI am a 13 year old girl and i'm wondering if the book Freaky Green Eyes would be age appropriate for me. It seems very interesting but kind of scary. If you have read this book, what do you think? more

Resolved Question: What literary character scares the living bajeesus out of you?

For school I had to read the short story "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. The first time I read it I was disturbed by Arnold Friend, but now that I'm analyzing the text I'm freaking TERRIFIED of him. I'm seriously convinced he's like, behind me right now lmao. I knew when I read it that he was a reflection of Satan, but now I can see that the similarities are uncanny. His name (Arnold Friend = An Old Fiend), his sneaky temptation and most of all his feet. Satan is depicted as having cloven feet, and Arnold's stance certainly indicates that he may have such feet under his stuffed boots. The highly ironic thing is that I'm an atheist... I don't believe in Satan. But my GOD this man is SCARY AS HELL!OMG BIG BROTHER! I read "1984" in 8th grade and was scarred. I'm glad I read it then, though, because it really helped shape me as an individual. It just kind of developed me into a bit of a freak in my high school lol. Anyway, I'll look up Charles Schmid when I'm not all alone during nighttime =P. more

Resolved Question: Could someone please list me a couple good books from the following authors?

Pearl Buck Willa Cather William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald James Fenimore Cooper Sinclair Lewis Margaret Mitchell Edith Wharton Mark Twain Earnest Hemingway Raymond Chandler Theodore Dreiser Carson McCullers Joseph Heller Ayn Rand Robert Penn Warren Richard Wright Thomas Wolfe John Steinbeck Eudora Welty Upton Sinclair Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Henry James Ralph Ellison Ray Bradbury Choice ________________________________________________________ List 2 Isaac Asimov J.D. Salinger Kurt Vonnegut Saul Bellow Phillip Roth Mario Puzo John Updike Toni Morrison E.L Doctorow John Irving Barbara Kingsolver Joyce Carol Oates Ann Patchett Richard Russo Russell Banks Cormac McCarthy Anne Tyler Marilynne Robinson Jane Smiley Louise Erdrich Michael Chabon Pat Conroy John Cheever Charles Frazier Annie Proulx Jane Hamilton Amy Tan more

Resolved Question: What's your favorite short story of all time?

Mine is a tie between Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" :-) What about you guys?I LOVE "A Good Man is Hard to Find"! Sooo weird. <3 more