Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction, including the novel “Butcher” and the story collection “Flint Kill Creek.” A new novel, “Fox,” will be published later this year.

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0:43.2	This is the Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.
0:46.2	I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:54.8	On this week's episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Joyce Carol Oates read her story, The Frenzy, from the March 24th, 2025 issue of the magazine.
0:59.6	Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others,
1:05.6	is the author of more than 70 books of fiction, including the novel Butcher and the story collection, Flint Kill Creek.
1:09.0	A new novel, Fox, will be published later this year.
1:11.0	Now here's Joyce Carol Oates.
1:25.0	The Frenzy. Early afternoon, driving south in the Garden State Parkway with the girl beside him, passing exits for Point Pleasant, New Jersey, for Tom's River.
1:30.7	Something haphazard in his driving today, which is unlike him.
1:35.0	Wind from the Atlantic is rocking the Subaru Forester, and he feels a thrill of, what is it,
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