Alfred Kazin has spoken of Joyce Carol Oates' "sweetly brutal sense of what American experience I like," and each of these original and disturbing plays explores a facet of that experience. When Ontological Proof of My Existence was presented in New York City, Newsweek critic Jack Kroll spoke of its "flaring life" and its power in reminding us that we are all characters in the melodrama of contemporary crisis.

Three Plays: Ontological Proof of My Existence, Miracle Play, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

Literature & Fiction

OATES,JOYCE CAROL

Dramas & Plays

Ontario Review Press

A Gallery of Spiders: Poems (Ontario Review Press Poetry)

Reed, John Robert

Poetry

A rediscovered gem about women's friendship and the shared longings of young wives and mothers.Becca is a former dancer from Bennington, now an aspiring poet; a ditzy but brilliant young red head from Chicago who uses humor to fend off the world. Ulli is a calm, deeply optimistic, smoothly beautiful ex-fashion model from Sweden. Newly married-Ulli to a TV news anchor, Becca to a successful professor and expectant mothers living just off the campus of a major university, they meet in an adult ed class and begin a friendship that changes their lives. Raising their children together, telling the intimate secrets of the past, helping each other cope with their less than perfect marriages-to laugh at what is not perfect in life and appreciate what is-this is the story of the attraction of opposites, of the friendship we all once had and wish we had held onto. Originally published to stunning international acclaim, now back in print with an Afterword by the author, Adult Education is"An engaging, engrossing, sometimes wallopingly funny novel...The discovery of Jaffee is a delight."-The Los Angeles Times"A wonderful novel; funny and heartbreaking, cruelly satiric and tender."-Joyce Carol Oates"An exuberant chronicle of growing upa poignant and funny and wholly recognizable picture of our times."-Rosellen Brown"Fervent and funnyThere's no soft focus, no airbursh. She launches into details about which women are matter-of-fact and men are notoriously squeamish. Becca's water breaks, her breasts leak. Becca behaves, for the most part, the way women do when men aren't watching."-The Washington Post"A fine, strong work, one that frequently strikes to the heart of the fearful complexities inherent in human relationships."-The Dallas Morning NewsAnnette Williams Jaffee is the author of  The Dangerous Age (Leapfrog) and Recent History (Putnam). She lives on the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is at work on a new novel about writing women.

Adult Education

Jaffee, Annette Williams

Literary

Invisible Woman: New & Selected Poems, 1970-1982 (Ontario Review Press Poetry Series)

Oates, Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol

Personal Accounts: New & Selected Poems, 1966-1986 (Ontario Review Press Poetry)

Phillips, Robert S.

The debut collection by one of our foremost younger fiction writers. A widely hailed first collection of stories set mostly in the rural South.

Town Smokes

BENEDICT, Pinckney

United States

Compiled, with a preface, by Ron Hansen: twenty-four stories about love of all kinds. Includes Margaret Atwood, Charles Baxter, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Amy Hempel, John Irving, David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, and Tobias Wolff.

You Don't Know What Love Is: Contemporary American Stories

Interviews with Atwood by other writers, including Graeme Gibson, Joyce Carol Oates, Geoff Hancock.This gathering of 21 interviews with Margaret Atwood covers a broad spectrum of topics. Beginning with Graeme Gibson's "Dissecting the Way a Writer Works" (1972), the conversations provide a forum for Atwood to talk about her own work, her career as a writer, feminism, and Canadian cultural nationalism, and to refute the autobiographical fallacy. These conversations offer what Earl Ingersoll calls "a kind of 'biography' of Margaret Atwood—the only kind of biography she is likely to sanction." Enlivened by Atwood's unfailing sense of humor, the interviews present an invaluable view of a distinguished contemporary writer at work.

Margaret Atwood: Conversations (Ontario Review Press Critical Series)

History & Criticism

Margaret Atwood: Conversations

In these sensitive and keenly observed stories dramatizing the complexities and ambiguities of human relationships, C. E. Poverman presents a richly varied range of protagonists. Among them are an Hispanic social worker who takes calls on a crisis center helpline ("Cutter"), a young model who demonstrates cosmetics ("Beautiful"), and a college professor accused of sexual abuse ("The Man Who Died"). The powerful climax of the collection is the hallucinatory title story, where a young woman discovers that her lover is a potentially dangerous psychopath. Marked by intelligence, compassion, and a sense of irony, these stories secure Poverman's place among the best writers of short fiction in America today.

Skin: Stories

Poverman, C. E.

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