All posts tagged: Oates

From the Archive: “The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey” | Joyce Carol Oates, Alissa Bennett

From the Archive: “The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey” | Joyce Carol Oates, Alissa Bennett

Published by José Betancourt

In the June 24, 1999, issue of The New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates wrote about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey and dissected America’s fascination with “the category of nonfiction known as ‘true crime.’” Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. In this episode of Private Life, “The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey” is read by writer Alissa Bennett. This reading accompanies the Private Life episode featuring Oates discussing her novels, essays, and the improbability of her life. You can also read “The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey” on our website here.  Source link

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Her Improbable Life, and Joan Didion | Joyce Carol Oates, Jarrett Earnest

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Her Improbable Life, and Joan Didion | Joyce Carol Oates, Jarrett Earnest

Published by José Betancourt

In the third episode of Private Life, Joyce Carol Oates joins Jarrett Earnest for an expansive conversation on everything from Joan Didion to serial killers. Click the “Subscribe” link in the player above to follow this podcast on your favorite listening platform. They discuss “New York: Sentimental Journeys,” Didion’s essay from the Review’s March 7, 1991, issue about the Central Park Five, the rush to judgment in a sensational murder case, media mythmaking, and sentimentalized narratives about crime. The conversation also touches on the state of long-form criticism, true crime’s grip on pop culture, and the elusive art of the novella, and Oates reflects on her writing (including three essays about murderers that she wrote for the Review: “‘I Had No Other Thrill or Happiness,’” “The Mystery of JonBenét Ramsey,” and “Death in the Air”) and the improbability of her life.  Joyce Carol Oates’s many novels, essays, short stories, poems, and works of criticism have addressed subjects ranging from boxing to Marilyn Monroe, often exploring the dark underbelly of American life. She is a Visiting Distinguished Professor at …

Joyce Carol Oates calls out ‘absurd’ Marty Supreme and deems it ‘slapstick farce’

Joyce Carol Oates calls out ‘absurd’ Marty Supreme and deems it ‘slapstick farce’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Author Joyce Carol Oates has shared her brutally honest thoughts on Josh Safdie’s Oscar-tipped Marty Supreme. Starring Timothée Chalamet as wannabe table-tennis champion Marty Mauser, the sports drama is expected to receive several Oscar nominations later this month. The cast also features Gwyneth Paltrow, rapper Tyler the Creator, Odessa A’zion, Fran Drescher and Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary. While a majority of critics have hailed the film as another Safdie masterpiece, in the vein of his 2019 Adam Sandler-led crime thriller Uncut Gems, Oates, 87, couldn’t disagree more. “Understandably, many people love Marty Supreme & I don’t want to provoke them,” she wrote Saturday on X, clarifying that while she was in “total agreement that Chalamat’s performance is virtuoso,” she felt the movie itself was “very repetitive.” “We see Marty shouting, quarreling, interrupting, hyperventilating in exactly the same way through the entire …