Joyce Carol Oates Series
Thursdays, October 2026 - March 2027, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
As prolific in awards as she is in writing, Joyce Carol Oates has published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction since her first novel in 1963. Oates is an American writer from New York who cites her influences as Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Henry David Thoreau.
When you join us for the Joyce Carol Oates series, you’ll receive:
All 5 events held at The Red House with drinks and seasonal delicious dessert.
Copies of the 5 books that will be read as part of the series.
Opportunity to build community with a group of amazing humans.
First access to all new events.
There are only 10 seats available, so don’t delay in booking your spot.
What Books We’ll Be Reading
Events of this series:
10/8/26 - Them
11/5/26 - Bellefleur
1/7/27 - Black Water
2/4/27 - Because it is Bitter, and Because it is My Heart
3/4/27 - Lovely, Dark, Deep
Want to join an event but not the whole series?
Tickets are also available for each individual event! All five events for $200 or you can also sign up for single events at $50 a ticket.
Grab your spot in upcoming individual events.
Joyce Carol Oates Series secures your spot at all five events, and everything that comes with each of those. You will get delicious drinks and dessert every time we gather, hard copies of all five of the books we will be reading, and a great community of humans.
October 8, 2026 - 7-8:30 pm
As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, Them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 race riots.
November 5, 2026 - 7-8:30 pm
Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of an unusual family. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality versus love. Bellefleur is an allegory of caritas versus cupiditas, love and selflessness versus pride and selfishness. It is a novel of change, baffling complexity, mystery.
January 7, 2027 - 7-8:30 pm
Kelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old “good girl” when she meets the Senator at a party that takes on the quality of a surreal nightmare. In a brilliantly woven narrative, we enter her past and her present, her mind and her body as she is fatally attracted to this older man, this hero, this soon-to-be-lover. Joyce Carol Oates has written a bold tour de force that parts the black water to reveal the profoundest depths of human truth.
February 4, 2027 - 7-8:30 pm
The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a murder...and a bond of passion and guilt is formed between them. How this one irrevocable, tragic act shapes their lives and alters their destinies becomes Joyce Carol Oate's finest, emotion-packed novel - a work the critics are calling a masterpiece, the best work of America's best writer of contemporary realism.
March 4, 2027 - 7-8:30 pm
Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates’s magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.
Testimonials
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"I was reluctant to read our 2nd book...but now that I am done reading it, I am glad I did it. Thank you for pushing my boundary."
-Gayl
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“Red House Reads events are like no other book group I’ve experienced! The meals Jessica prepares are beyond fantastic, and segue into wonderful conversation with people of varying backgrounds. I never enjoyed ‘book clubs’ before finding Red House.”
-Jen
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“I have never experienced hospitality like I have at the Red House. From incredible food to insightful conversations, Jessica has created an environment that facilitates and encourages human flourishing.”
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