Stephen King reviewed The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (who reads tonight in Saratoga) this past May in the New York Times Book Review:
“Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s first postmodern Gothic novel: E. L. Doctorow’s ‘Ragtime’ set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix and full of crazy people. You should read it. I wish I could tell you more.”
More: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/books/review/the-accursed-by-joyce-carol-oates.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Full schedule of free readings: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html