Congratulations to the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize finalists

The finalists for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize were revealed yesterday.

The $50,000 prize, sponsored by the New Literary Project, honors a distinguished midcareer author of fiction who has demonstrated a "widespread appeal" among readers.

The winner will also then be in residence at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the Bay Area in October 2022.

Here are the contenders; a winner will be announced in April.

• The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, by Christopher Beha

• The Trees, by Percival Everett

• Matrix, by Lauren Groff

• Intimacies, by Katie Kitamura

• Hell of a Book, by Jason Mott

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