Joyce Carol Oates
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Sep 16, 2026
Jennifer WelchHOST
You, you acting like Tesla, you did." And he responds, like, to that person, "You're a taker, not a maker.
Jennifer WelchHOST
Like, I'm a big maker." And writer Joyce Carol Oates I think has some of the best analysis about this billionaire class, and the specific billionaire Elon Musk, that I think also umbrellas over the entire fascist regime and all of its collaborators.
Jennifer WelchHOST
Pop this up.
Jennifer WelchHOST
"So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates: scenes from nature, a pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book." She says, but doubt he reads.
Chrissie WhitleyGUEST
Okay.
Chrissie WhitleyGUEST
It's Fox by Joyce Carol Oates.
Sarah DickinsonHOST
Oh, I tried that one.
Sarah DickinsonHOST
Yeah.
Meg MasonGUEST
There's this really strange period of a few months where you've got literally nothing to do.
Meg MasonGUEST
But unless you're Joyce Carol Oates, you can't turn around and start writing another one.
Meg MasonGUEST
And I happened to come across through my daughter just finished an English degree and then was going to go and study something else.
Meg MasonGUEST
And she missed studying English.
John GreenHOST
More importantly, these poems have a lot to say about the relationship between death and life, between faith and doubt, between the power of God and the power of individuals, so let's focus on that, because it actually might change your life and stuff.
John GreenHOST
[upbeat rock music] So Joyce Carol Oates once called Emily Dickinson the most paradoxical of poets, the very poet of paradox, and this can really frustrate students and literary critics alike, particularly when Dickinson seems to contradict herself within a single poem.
John GreenHOST
Take, for example, this bit of light verse.
John GreenHOST
"Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency." So this seems like a pretty pro-science, anti-religion poem, right? I mean, faith is put in quotation marks and called an invention.
Paul TremblayGUEST
And in my senior year, I was taking like a lit one-on-one class.
Paul TremblayGUEST
And in that class, I read Joyce Carol Oates is where are you going? Where have you been? And that was like a wow moment for me.
Paul TremblayGUEST
It's like, you know, I remember thinking I didn't know people wrote things like this.
Paul TremblayGUEST
Shortly after that, my girlfriend, who's now my wife, bought me Stephen King's The Stand, also Jurassic Park.
Darren MarlarHOST
The story of Charles Schmid and his victims has inspired some popular culture.
Darren MarlarHOST
Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been, drew inspiration from the case, as did the 1985 film Smooth Talk, which featured Treat Williams in a role based on Schmid.
Darren MarlarHOST
In 2014, actress Rose McGowan made her directorial debut with the film Dawn, which portrayed the story of Schmid's first victim, Aline Rowe, renamed Dawn in the film.
Darren MarlarHOST
[mysterious music] In the fall of 1973, a seemingly ordinary night turned into an extraordinary encounter for Lyndia Morel, an event that has intrigued UFO researchers and enthusiasts ever since.
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Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prolific and dedicated writers of her generation.
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Yes, but would this be admirable if she simply rushed her books out? Obviously not.
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Prolific cannot be a euphemism for sloppy.
Lisa LiebesGUEST
So even men who share the sensibilities of the people in power are really having trouble getting published today.
Lisa LiebesGUEST
Um, Joyce Carol Oates, the famous writer, said that, um, you know, a friend whose literary agent said that he can't even get editors to read first novels by young white male authors.
Lisa LiebesGUEST
So what's happening in the publishing industry is ... really scary right now where men just aren't getting their voices heard.
Lisa LiebesGUEST
Women are publishing books for women, and of course young men are gonna stop reading because men aren't interested in, you know, romance stories written by Sally Rooney about Marxists.
Deborah TreismanHOST
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
Deborah TreismanHOST
On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Joyce Carol Oates read her story, "Lost Child," which appears in the September 21, 2026, issue of the magazine.
Deborah TreismanHOST
Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than 70 books of fiction, including the novel Fox and the story collections Clint Kill Creek and The Frenzy.
Deborah TreismanHOST
Now here's Joyce Carol Oates.
Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
"Lost Child." He said, "Come with me.
Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take Daddy's hand," how all the stories begin, our large hand lowered, your small hand lifted.
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Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And to those strangers who have been watching us covertly, I say, "What are you staring at? This is none of your business.
Joyce Carol OatesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I am comforting my friend."
Joshua GlennHOST
Some gristle missing from the darkest moments.
Joshua GlennHOST
I also do want to give a shout out to Joyce Carol Oates, the author of the Marilyn Monroe biography, Blonde, an unexpected late life keyboard warrior.
Joshua GlennHOST
Which is, I mean, like, on the topic of her being a keyboard warrior, have you guys read what she said about Elon Musk diagnosing his function as a man, completely lacking any passion or interest? Get him, yes! Brilliant.
Joshua GlennHOST
She rattled him.
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