Popcorn and Stale Plush: Joyce Carol Oates in Motion
Namara Smith, 10 February 2022
Is Joyce Carol Oates a hack? For the best part of her six-decade career, there’s been a lingering suspicion that nobody who publishes as often as she does can have much worth saying. An aura of cheapness, or promiscuity, hangs over her work. Literary value is often synonymous with scarcity, and Oates has never made herself scarce. She made her name in the 1960s and 1970s with four...
