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Joyce Carol Oates will receive $20000 prize from Oregon State University

OregonLive.com - Jan 23, 2012
By Jeff Baker, The Oregonian Joyce Carol Oates is the first recipient of the Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, given by Oregon State University to "a major American author who has created a body of critically acclaimed work and who has ...

Oates, recipient of OSU literary award, to visit Corvallis in May

Corvallis Gazette Times - Jan 24, 2012
Oregon State University's creative writing program announced Monday that writer Joyce Carol Oates will be the first recipient of its new literary award and will visit both Corvallis and Portland this spring for public talks. Oates, 73, is the author of ...

Five Books To Watch For In 2012

NYU Local - Jan 25, 2012
A few established writers – Joyce Carol Oates and Anne Tyler – will be releasing new works this year, but we also recommend you seek out new authors and see what their debuts have to offer. Of course, new books also mean more upcoming readings and ...

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A Widow's Story: A Memoir

by: Joyce Carol Oates

In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath.

"My husband died, my life collapsed."

On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two.
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The Best American Short Stories 2005

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The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.

The Best American Short Stories 2005 includes.
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Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer

A story collection that proves less is more.

The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's possibly apocryphal six-word story—"For Sale: baby shoes, never worn"—to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them "hint fiction" because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events.
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The Writer's Block: 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination

by: Jason Rekulak
Anxious to write that Great American Novel but don't know where to begin? Help is on the way with our Writer's Block! This guide to beating writer's block comes packaged in the shape of an actual block: 3" x 3" x 3", with 672 pages and more than 200 photographs throughout. Next time you're stuck, just flip open The Writer's Block to any page to find an idea or exercise that will jump-start your imagination. Many of these assignments come straight from the creative writing classes of celebrated novelists like Ethan Canin, Richard Price, Toni Morrison, and Kurt Vonnegut: Joyce Carol Oates explains how she uses running to destroy writer's block.
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