Fiction. Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano. "Sitting between the great cities of New York and Philadelphia, New Jersey has been by tradition a heavily 'organized' Mafia state, as it was at one time a northern outpost of the Ku Klux Klan, with a concentration of members in Trenton, Camden, Monmouth County, and South Jersey. In such ways, the most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances—of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in NEW JERSEY NOIR"—Joyce Carol Oates, from the introduction.

Author City: PRINCETON, NJ USA

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most respected and honored writers in the United States. She has written over fifty novels, as well as multiple collections of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. In 1969, Oates received the National Book Award and, over the years, has been nominated three times for the Pulitizer Price in fiction. Since 1978, Oates has lived in Princeton, New Jersey, where she continues to teach in Princeton University's creative writing program.