“... woman who gets singled out for murder in slasher films, from Psycho to Silence of the Lambs. Carol Clover, in a 1987 essay on gender issues in slasher movies, analyzed the conventions and taboos that have made these horror films about psychokillers so successful, and which now seem to have moved from pulp cinema to feminist literary fiction. According to ...”

“... is better represented by Tyson’s antithesis, the great Sugar Ray Leonard, who, in the words of Joyce CarolOates, can sometimes box like ‘a yuppie lawyer’. Despite the fierce intelligence which Tyson brings to the ring, he is a cruder proposition. The sense we make of him will depend on his performance over the ...”

“... is true of most ‘nasty’ stories written now in England or America – for example, those of Joyce CarolOates or Ian McEwan. Indeed, there seems to be a whole genre of repulsive literature in our time written by mild, serious, high-minded people who strike one as not so much indulging in personal fantasies as ...”

“... but ... forget it. Bernard Malamud? Unreadable. What about someone as prolific as Joyce CarolOates? She’s a joke monster who ought to be beheaded in a public auditorium or in Shea or in a field with hundreds of thousands (laughs). She does all the graffiti in the men’s room and the women’s room ...”

“... obfuscations and Proust’s longueurs to join dependable storytellers like Robert Stone and Joyce CarolOates. He got mugged by realism. He realised that Elizabeth Bowen is just as good as Virginia Woolf but without the ‘affected prose style’, and that the selling of high art is ‘just one more form of ...”

“... Morrison, Sandra Cisneros) and ‘lower-middle-class modernism’ (Raymond Carver, Joyce CarolOates), with Venn diagrams illustrating the overlap between these groups, and their polarisation by aesthetic sub-tendencies such as maximalism and minimalism. Despite his professed indifference to the pro-con ...”

“... Everett, and making a tacit contrast between his work and that of other contemporary writers, that Joyce CarolOates tweeted about the ‘wan little husks of “autofiction” with space between paragraphs to make the book seem longer’.Oates was complaining not just about bad taste ...”

“... un-American accent, and reinvented as an estrangement. John Updike is a self-confessed fan, but Joyce CarolOates, who is not, has also conducted a wonderfully ingenious argument with Nabokov in several novels including The Childwold in 1976 and her Chappaquiddick novella, Black Water, in 1992, where the question of ...”

“... and wasted life. Indeed, in a celebrated review of the book in the New York Times Book Review, Joyce CarolOates linked it with a genre she named ‘pathography’, whose ‘motifs are dysfunction and disaster, illnesses and pratfalls, failed marriages and failed careers, alcoholism and breakdowns and outrageous ...”

“... he is in the superficial events that surround him – is meant to be its representative. Perhaps Joyce CarolOates, whose comments appeared in the New York Review of Books and who has written some forty novels to Benjamin Kunkel’s one, has a peculiar idea of what constitutes inactivity. Dwight makes a big noise ...”

“... are the full hagiographic shilling, written by the usual suspects – Mailer, Alex Haley, Joyce CarolOates – but the pictures do manage to convey something of Ali’s tremendous physical presence. Take the picture on page 17. In it, Ali is wearing a white towelling dressing-gown and is baring his teeth, his ...”

“... or scribbled on a steno pad, and often carelessly discarded. Guthrie, like, say, Balzac, Simenon, Joyce CarolOates, Bob Dylan, Richmal Crompton and Stephen King, was basically a writing machine, someone constantly in the process of noting, notating and composing. Born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1912, Guthrie was brought ...”

“... personalities, ideas of possession and altered states in work by writers from Margaret Atwood to Joyce CarolOates to Stephen King. The alliance of entertainment media with magic, telepathy and possession grows ever stronger, in writing for children, in television programmes – even the Teletubbies are psychic ...”

“... Most were written by established names, among them Frank Conroy, Stuart Dybeck, Richard Ford, Joyce CarolOates, Robert Stone and Amy Tan. Those writers known partly for formal experimentation whose work Wolff did include (among them Lorrie Moore, Denis Johnson and Mary Robison) did not, in the stories Wolff ...”

“... and smooth on the page, his brain a well-oiled Leica. With the exception of the still generative Joyce CarolOates, a frequent pen-pal in the letters (and presiding grande dame of X, garrotting Elon Musk with brisk dispatch), Updike’s productivity was unmatched among his peers. Even on his deathbed (he died in 2009 ...”