Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the National Book Award-winning author of over 50 novels, including bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The Gravedigger's Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.

Here’s to the Rebels

At the annual benefit for the <a href="http://nmcenter.org/" target="_blank">Norman Mailer Center</a>, the acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates received a lifetime achievement award for her fiction. Her remarks about Norman Mailer and what he represented as a transgressive, rebellious, sympathetic writer who wrote exactly what he wanted are reprinted here. Joyce Carol Oates’s latest book is ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barbary-Shore-Norman-Mailer/dp/0375700390" target="_blank">Black Dahlia & White Rose</a>.’

Joyce Carol Oates | Published Oct 24, 2012

Joyce Carol Oates’s Book Bag

Black Dahlia

The master of the American Gothic returns with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Dahlia-White-Rose-Stories/dp/0062195697/">Black Dahlia & White Rose</a>, a new book of tales that surveys how America reflects the dark ripples of its people’s souls. She's also edited a new edition of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Book-American-Short-Stories/dp/0199744394/" target="_blank">The Oxford Book of American Short Stories</a>. She picks five short-story collections that have inspired her.

Joyce Carol Oates | Published Sep 11, 2012