Joyce Carol Oates
Autor(a) de We Were the Mulvaneys
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938 in Lockport, New York. She received a bachelor's degree in English from Syracuse University and a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin. She is the author of numerous novels and collections of short stories. Her works include We Were mostrar mais the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Bellefleur, You Must Remember This, Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart, Solstice, Marya : A Life, and Give Me Your Heart. She has received numerous awards including the National Book Award for Them, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. She was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her title Lovely, Dark, Deep. She also wrote a series of suspense novels under the pseudonym Rosamond Smith. In 2015, her novel The Accursed became listed as a bestseller on the iBooks chart. She worked as a professor of English at the University of Windsor, before becoming the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She and her late husband Raymond J. Smith operated a small press and published a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. (Bowker Author Biography) Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most eminent and prolific literary figures and social critics of our times. She has won the National Book Award and several O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. Among her other awards are an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Lifetime Achievement Award, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Joyce Carol Oates
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Editor, Contributor & Introduction — 774 exemplares
Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway (1985) 427 exemplares
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread (2011) 316 exemplares
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Editor; Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Editor — 99 exemplares
Three Plays: Ontological Proof of My Existence/Miracle Play/the Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1980) 9 exemplares
[unidentified works] 6 exemplares
Family 4 exemplares
The Crossing 4 exemplares
Mastiff 4 exemplares
Tone Clusters 4 exemplares
Will You Always Love Me? [short story] 4 exemplares
Haunted [short fiction] 3 exemplares
Night Walks: A Bedside Companion 3 exemplares
############## [short story] 3 exemplares
The Step-Father 3 exemplares
Murder for Love/Murder for Women/At the Paradise Hotel Sparks Nevada/Heartbreak House [audio] (1996) 3 exemplares
The Haunting 3 exemplares
How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again 3 exemplares
Brothers [short story] 3 exemplares
In a Region of Ice [short story] 3 exemplares
Curly Red 3 exemplares
The Sky-blue Ball 3 exemplares
Martyrdom [novelette] 3 exemplares
SPARROW 19: Plagiarized Material by Fernandes 2 exemplares
Landfill 2 exemplares
El legado de Maude Donegal. El hijo superviviente: Dos novelas de misterio: 482 (Nuevos Tiempos) (2022) 2 exemplares
A Brutal Murder in a Public Place [short story] — Autor — 2 exemplares
Pumpkin Head 2 exemplares
The Others 2 exemplares
Blind 2 exemplares
Valentine, July Heat Wave 2 exemplares
The Doll 2 exemplares
The Fabled Light-house at Viña Del Mar 2 exemplares
Give Me Your Heart [short story] 2 exemplares
The Ruins of Contracoeur 2 exemplares
Blonde 2 exemplares
Nightless Nights 2 exemplares
Cupid & Psyche 2 exemplares
In Shock 2 exemplares
Night-side [short story] 2 exemplares
The Corn Maiden [short story] 2 exemplares
Antique Rare Signed ~ Mysteries of Winterthurn by Joyce Carol Oates ~ The Franklin Library 2 exemplares
The Eclipse 2 exemplares
The Dream-catcher 2 exemplares
Vahşi Geceler: Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James ve Hemingway'in Son Günleri Üzerine Hikayeler (Turkish Edition) (2009) 2 exemplares
"Mastiff," New Yorker, July 1, 2013 1 exemplar
Noche, sueño, muerte, estrellas 1 exemplar
Oni 1 exemplar
De bingo meester 1 exemplar
You Petted Me, and I Followed you Home 1 exemplar
Maiden 1 exemplar
Monstruo de ojos verdes 1 exemplar
La fille du fossoyeur 1 exemplar
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 1 exemplar
Frankenstein's Fallen Angel 1 exemplar
Murder For Revenge 1 exemplar
"Delaĭ so mnoĭ chto khochesh' ". 1 exemplar
INFIELES 1 exemplar
Sabato di follia (in Figli randagi) 1 exemplar
O Boxe Livro 1 1 exemplar
The Instructor 1 exemplar
Blind Spot Magazine: Issue Twenty 1 exemplar
Eles 1 exemplar
Upon the Sweeping Flood {short story} 1 exemplar
First marriage 1 exemplar
The Devil's Half-Acre 1 exemplar
Kadınlar 1 exemplar
Schroeder's Stepfather 1 exemplar
Labyrinth (in McSweeney's 29 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
The Blind Man's Sighted Daughters 1 exemplar
Panic 1 exemplar
Ladies and Gentlemen 1 exemplar
Face 1 exemplar
By the River [short story] 1 exemplar
Murder-Two 1 exemplar
Bad Habits (in McSweeney's 18 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
Happiness 1 exemplar
The Cousins [short story] 1 exemplar
The Gathering Squall 1 exemplar
Dreaming America & Other Poems 1 exemplar
Nairobi - story 1 exemplar
Funland 1 exemplar
The Lamb of Abyssalia 1 exemplar
Season of Peril 1 exemplar
The Miraculous Birth 1 exemplar
Daisy 1 exemplar
A Middle-Class Education 1 exemplar
Raven's Wing: 2 1 exemplar
The Key & Tone Clusters 1 exemplar
Unprintable 1 exemplar
The Hands 1 exemplar
Labor Day 1 exemplar
Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive? 1 exemplar
Posthumous 1 exemplar
Omen 1 exemplar
The Sons Of Angus Macelster 1 exemplar
The Affliction 1 exemplar
Scars 1 exemplar
An Urban Paradox 1 exemplar
Intensive 1 exemplar
Where Are You Going 1 exemplar
Death Astride Bicycle 1 exemplar
Fever Blisters 1 exemplar
Shadows Of The Evening 1 exemplar
The Temple 1 exemplar
The Hand-puppet 1 exemplar
Magda Maria (in McSweeney's 25 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
Angel of Mercy 1 exemplar
The Life of the Writer, the Life of the Career (The Bennington Chapbooks in Literature) (1995) 1 exemplar
Death Mother 1 exemplar
The Collector of Hearts [short story] 1 exemplar
A Manhattan Romance 1 exemplar
The Complete Stories and Parables 1 exemplar
The Journey 1 exemplar
In Case of Accidental Death 1 exemplar
Malocchio (in L'occhio del male) 1 exemplar
L'esecuzione (in L'occhio del male) 1 exemplar
Il pianale (in L'occhio del male) 1 exemplar
[Broadside] "If you have it..." 1 exemplar
Prašmatnūs žmonės: romanas 1 exemplar
Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl 1 exemplar
Foxfire confessions of a girl-gang 1 exemplar
You, Little Match-Girl {short story} 1 exemplar
SEVGI DOLUDUR YERYUZU 1 exemplar
Fossil-Figures 1 exemplar
Expensive Things 1 exemplar
Oates, Joyce Carol Archive 1 exemplar
The White Cat 1 exemplar
. . . & Answers [short story] 1 exemplar
The First Husband 1 exemplar
Feral 1 exemplar
Il cranio (in Gli occhi della paura) 1 exemplar
One Good Turn 1 exemplar
Stripping 1 exemplar
The Rose Wall 1 exemplar
Invisible Women: New and Selected Poems, 1970-83 (Ontario Review Press poetry series) (1982) 1 exemplar
Gay 1 exemplar
The Damnation of A--- K--- [short story] 1 exemplar
The Sepulchre 1 exemplar
Mistrial 1 exemplar
Poems (in Paris Review 158 - PLIMPTON) 1 exemplar
The Stone Orchard 1 exemplar
The Interview 1 exemplar
Where Is Here? [short story] 1 exemplar
Snowfall 1 exemplar
It is My Heart 1 exemplar
Desideri appagati (in Figli randagi) 1 exemplar
Wooded Forms 1 exemplar
Associated Works
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales (2010) — Contribuidor — 976 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 915 exemplares
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contribuidor — 504 exemplares
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 451 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 18 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) / Wholphin No. 1 (2005) — Contribuidor — 408 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 377 exemplares
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction (1998) — Contribuidor — 351 exemplares
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 345 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 11 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): It Can Be Free (2003) — Contribuidor — 322 exemplares
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contribuidor — 298 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 263 exemplares
The Writer's Digest Handbook of Short Story Writing, Volume 1 (1970) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 249 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998) — Contribuidor — 242 exemplares
In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper (2016) — Contribuidor — 240 exemplares
Tales of Henry James [Norton Critical Edition] (1984) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 236 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2007: 20th Annual Collection (2007) — Contribuidor — 212 exemplares
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell (2001) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contribuidor — 193 exemplares
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection (2008) — Contribuidor — 168 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Contribuidor — 95 exemplares
The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior (1995) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Contribuidor — 85 exemplares
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2015) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
Freedom: Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2009) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating (1992) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 54 exemplares
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Alive in Shape and Color: 16 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired (2019) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2009) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Unusual Suspects: A New Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard (1996) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
Nightmare Magazine, October 2014 (Women Destroy Horror! special issue) (2014) — Compositor, algumas edições — 36 exemplares
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
About Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, Poetry, and Essays (1973) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Selected Shorts: American Classics (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2010) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (1994) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Bookshop Mysteries: Five Bibliomysteries by Bestselling Authors (2017) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories: The First Ten Years (2014) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Winter's Tales: New Series No 6 (International Anthology of Stories by New & Established Auth) (1990) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
On the job: Fiction about work by contemporary American writers (1977) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Onthebus No. 8 and 9 — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Mississippi Review: MR45 — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
F(r)iction no. 13 : The comeback issue — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 2004/03-04 — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Celebration: 60 Years of Good Reading from 60 Authors Chosen by the Literary Guild (1987) 2 exemplares
Killer Crimes — Autor — 2 exemplares
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Outros nomes
- Kelly, Lauren
Smith, Rosamond - Data de nascimento
- 1938 -06-16
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- VS
- Local de nascimento
- Lockport, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Millersport, New York, VS
- Educação
- Syracuse University (B.A. | 1960)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A. | English | 1961) - Ocupações
- university professor
author - Relações
- Smith, Raymond J. (first spouse)
Gross, Charles G. (second spouse) - Organizações
- Princeton University
University of Windsor - Prémios e menções honrosas
- PEN/Malamud Award (1996)
Bram Stoker Award (Life achievement|1994)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2003)
Humanist of the Year (2007)
National Humanities Medal (2010)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (1998) (mostrar todos 9)
Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement (2012)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1978)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2002) - Agente
- Warren Frazier (John Hawkins & Associates)
Membros
Discussions
Group Read, November 2021: Blonde em 1001 Books to read before you die (Novembro 2021)
Joyce c oates em Book talk (Abril 2020)
Group Read, October 2015: them em 1001 Books to read before you die (Outubro 2015)
THE DEEP ONES: "Family" by Joyce Carol Oates em The Weird Tradition (Maio 2015)
I've never read *******; where should I start? em Virago Modern Classics (Janeiro 2014)
August 2013: Joyce Carol Oates em Monthly Author Reads (Outubro 2013)
GROUP READ: Bellefleur (June - August 2011) em Fans of Joyce Carol Oates (Janeiro 2012)
JCO memoir 'A Widdow's Story' em Fans of Joyce Carol Oates (Junho 2011)
Críticas
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Elegant Prose (1)
Ghosts (1)
"We" narration (1)
Scolaire (1)
Gaslamp Fantasy (1)
2005-2010 (1)
Uni (1)
100 New Classics (1)
Stuff from Bard (1)
Female Author (2)
100 Hemskaste (2)
1990s (2)
To Read (3)
Unread books (1)
Read These Too (1)
Same Title (1)
AP Lit (1)
Greatest Books (1)
Carole's List (1)
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 440
- Also by
- 329
- Membros
- 55,412
- Popularidade
- #268
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 1,572
- ISBN
- 2,232
- Línguas
- 24
- Marcado como favorito
- 219
The book delivers precisely what is promised by the combination of title and subtitle.¹ It delivers more than promised in the sense that the biographer and editor, Greg Johnson, is also the author’s friend—and so the letters are warmer and more wide-ranging than might otherwise be expected from coolly business-like correspondence with a biographer. If you come looking for a heavily-edited, thematically-arranged volume, you’ll be disappointed. The edits are limited and judicious, usually in the form of a short introduction to set the context or clarifying comments enclosed in brackets within the text of the letters to identify people, places, events, and the like that would otherwise be confusing to the reader. The latter are especially important given that we have only the letters to the biographer and not the other half of the conversation. Reading the book is very much like overhearing one half of an ongoing phone conversation with Joyce Carol Oates (JCO) about her spouse, her pets, her colleagues, her work, the publishing world (Vanguard, Random House, Dutton, Norton, Doubleday, Ecco/HarperCollins) and editors, other authors, the theater world, and academic literary circles.
You’ll also be disappointed if you come looking for an unabridged, academic collection or critical edition of the complete correspondence. Elipses within the letters identify missing portions. You’ll have to make your own index if you want to refer back to JCO’s opinions about Toni Morrison, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Truman Capote, Charles Gibson, Janet Malcom, Margaret Atwood, Mike Tyson, Flannery O’Connor, Angelina Jolie, Marilynne Robinson, Saul Bellow, Nabokov, Henry James, Philip Roth, Stephen King, Walter Mosley, P.D. James, Donald Trump, Norman Mailer, Elaine Showalter, Jeanne Halpern, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich, Wallace Stevens, Oprah Winfrey, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Harold Bloom and Cornel West (“masters of bloviation,” p. 291).²
Of special interest throughout the book are the many observations JCO makes in the letters about the writing life, especially the challenge of moving back and forth between plays, short stories, novels (shorter and longer, YA and literary fiction), and poetry. She despairs of ever mastering the novella and she frequently mentions the challenge, even agony, of the first draft vs. the relative ease of revising. (“Yet, to have the facility of a Mozart, to toss work off without any effort at all, would not be much fun,” p. 58. “I expect to glance into a mirror one day & see a blank space with the notice OUT OF PRINT across it,” p. 291)
I am in the very odd (for me) position of reviewing a book about (by?) an author whose work I have not read, except in the occasional New Yorker or Atlantic essay or article in the New York Review of Books. I’ve never read her novels or seen her plays performed. And, frankly, this is probably not the book that one should choose for an introduction to JCO. Better, or at least more likely to be comprehensive for the periods it covers, is the 1998 biography, also by Greg Johnson (Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates). However, this book of letters and subsequent research (especially the November 20, 2023 Profile in the New Yorker by Rachel Aviv, “Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless, Prolific Search for a Self”) intrigues me enough to pursue reading a few of her novels and short story collections as time permits over the next year or so. If that is the criterion, the book was clearly a success.
Contents
Preface by Greg Johnson
Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates
Part One: 1975-1990
Part Two: 1991-1992
Part Three: 1993-1995
Part Four: 1996-1998
Part Five: 1999-2004
Part Six: 2005-2006
Who Should Read It?
Students of JCO who are trying to obtain contextual and biographical information to understand her oeuvre will be interested in the book, as will any hard core fans of either JCO or Greg Johnson. It is not for people like me who have limited to no prior acquaintance with JCO’s work, as there are likely better entrées to that work and summaries of it.
Princetonians should read the book. In addition to JCO, the university and the town (especially the McCarter Theatre) play a prominent role in the correspondence. As someone who spent significant time at Princeton Theological Seminary during the periods covered by the book (1988-1995), I found it a wonderful trip down memory lane. One letter in particular, dated 8 February 1994, with its brief mention of the weather (“Our weather is unspeakable! More snow! Sleet!”) was especially meaningful. We have photos of that horrific winter in which our first daughter was born a week after the letter was penned. The snow never let up.
Upcoming Events at which JCO will Promote the Book:
1 This book was received via LibraryThing Early Reviewers (LTER), a program by which publishers provide advance copies of books for review (or, as in this case, recently published copies—the book was released on March 5 and I was notified that I had “won” it on February 27; I received and started reading it on March 8). The book arrived complete with a Press Kit from Akashic Books with promotional events with Joyce Carol Oates listed from March 18-May 20. LibraryThing does not dictate the content or tone of any reviews, so long as they abide by the Terms of Use publicly posted on the site. This review is my honest opinion.
2 Cornel West actually appears with an interview/essay in the next book I must review, Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future, Rowman & Littlefield: NY, 2023, edited by George Yancy.… (mais)