![]() ![]() Her 2013 novel, ”Daddy Love” - about the abduction of a young boy who’s raised (and tortured) by a part-time preacher - is positively gut-wrenching. And she can equal him when it comes to squeamish horror, albeit writing what might be called “literary horror,” as well. Now 77, Oates rivals Stephen King in terms of being one of America’s most prolific writers. ![]() The title of last year’s short story collection, “Lovely, Dark, Deep,” (nominated for a 2015 Pulitzer Prize) describes much of Oates’ work. She’s written countless essays and short stories, 14 nonfiction books and 53 novels. I’ve been reading Oates for years, and have barely scratched the surface of her work. 19 at 7 p.m.) "The Lost Landscape" by Joyce Carol Oates. ( Oates reads and signs books at First Parish Church in Cambridge on Monday, Oct. There are some sweet memories, too, from the emotional support she got from her parents to the pleasure that came from “bad” childhood foods, like Heinz pork and beans, canned pears and Hostess CupCakes with “cream” filling. There’s a severely autistic younger sister, a friend who commits suicide, a girl put into foster care after her drunken father burns down the house. “The Lost Landscape” is about the events that shaped her, but it’s not all about her. “Aloneness,” Oates writes, “makes of us something so much more than we are in the midst of others whose claim is that they know us.” Oates doesn’t portray herself as the most social of creatures. And in the process, becoming a writer: She began writing at 14 and published her first novel at 26. Last month came another memoir, “The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age,” which concerns what the title suggests, starting with her childhood in upstate New York - shy, feeling like an outsider - and going through the years spent in academia in Detroit and Princeton. (Dustin Cohen)įour years ago, novelist Joyce Carol Oates published “A Widow’s Story,” a devastating and heart-wrenching memoir about the sudden death of her husband Raymond Smith and its aftermath. Facebook Email Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates. ![]()
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