Recent articles
October 8, 2026
Pay Some Attention to the Mysterious Man Behind the Curtain
Joyce Carol Oates interviews her elusive Substack editor and arranger, Robert Douglas Friedman, about his new mystery novel, “Final Copy”
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October 2, 2026
How Blackly Lovely: Noir in New Jersey
An Introduction
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September 13, 2026
“Lost Child,” by Joyce Carol Oates
It almost returned to Kit then—what this place was, and who was waiting for them inside.
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September 11, 2026
The Mutants
A 9/11 short story
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August 21, 2026
About “We Were the Mulvaneys”
An essay written for Oprah’s Book Club
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August 6, 2026
Some Poems
Regarding animals and insects
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