Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
ǂa"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of...
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While the common belief is that "body horror" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the "quintessential emblem of female body horror." In A Darker Shade of New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways" -- Page...
3) On boxing
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Examines the history, lore, and allure of boxing, including its overall mystique as it is seen in literature and film, its relationship to women, and the question of whether it should be banned."--