[Palpitations] Stop me before I write again Adjust Share Six hundred more pages by Joyce Carol Oates By James Wolcott, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Book reviews Joyce Carol Oates Novelists, American More from James Wolcott Philip Larkin’s enormous yes A connoisseur of doom whose wit refuses to die Hammett’s long goodbye A deferential biography of literature's Marlboro man The prince of finesse Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy Adjust Share Close < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > September 1982 < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > Table of Contents Close