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Topic: Joyce Carol-Oates

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The best takedowns of 2025

Andi Zeisler
DIS MEM BER by Joyce Carol Oates (Salon/Kevin Carlin/Mysterious Press)

An excerpt from "Dis Mem Ber"

Joyce Carol Oates

Oates: Nobody wants perfection

Alli Joseph
Joyce Carol Oates (AP/Katy Winn)

Oates sticks up for Trillin

Brendan Gauthier
Joyce Carol Oates (AP/Katy Winn)

Salon Staff
Emma Stone (Team Coco)

Woody Allen gets Twitter 101

Colin Gorenstein
Joyce Carol Oates (AP/Katy Winn)

JCO talks Cosby on Twitter

Salon Staff
Joyce Carol Oates (AP/Katy Winn)

Joanna Rothkopf
(Twitter)

Joanna Rothkopf
(AMC)

Joyce Carol Oates' thumbs down

Salon Staff
(AP/John Davisson/Salon)

Year's Worst Tweets

Erin Keane
Joyce Carol Oates (AP/Katy Winn)

Daniel D'Addario
Joyce Carol Oates (Slowking/WikimediaCommons)

Lindsay Abrams

My 1980s

Wayne Koestenbaum
(feministjulie/Flickr)

Prachi Gupta
(Star Black)

Joyce Carol Oates: No regrets!

Michele Filgate