Contents

Preface
Chronology

"Tracking the Elusive Author"
Betty Lee (Toronto Globe & Mail, 1970)

"Oates"
Alfred Kazin (Harper's, 1972)

"The Dark Lady of American Letters"
Joe David Bellamy (Atlantic Monthly, 1972)

"Joyce Carol Oates: Love and Violence"
Walter Clemons (Newsweek, 1972)

"Transformation of Self: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates"
The Editors (Ohio Review, 1973)

"Correspondence with Miss Joyce Carol Oates"
Dale Boesky (International Review of Psychoanalysis, 1975)

"Joyce Carol Oates: The Art of Fiction"
Robert Phillips (Paris Review, 1978)

"The Emergence of Joyce Carol Oates"
Lucinda Franks (New York Times Magazine, 1980)

"Speaking about Short Fiction: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates"
Sanford Pinsker (Studies in Short Fiction, 1981)

"An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates"
Leif Sjoberg (Contemporary Literature, 1982)

"A Taste of Oates"
Jay Parini (Horizon, 1983)

"Joyce Carol Oates and the Hardest Part of Writing"
Michael Schumacher (Writer's Digest, 1986)

"An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates"
Lawrence Grobel (Playboy, 1993)

"The Sunny Side of Joyce Carol Oates"
Laurence Shyer (American Theatre, 1994)

"Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates"
Stig Björkman (excerpts from a book-length interview published in Sweden, 2003)

"Closer to the Bone"
Rebecca Frankel (Moment magazine, 2004)

"Joyce Carol Oates on Marilyn Monroe"
Lawrence Grobel (Ego magazine, 2004)

"The New Monroe Doctrine"
Aida Edemariam (The Guardian [U.K.], 2004)

"Oates' Young Adult Novels"
Various Online Interviewers

"Ficitons of the New Millennium: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates"
Greg Johnson (Prairie Schooner, 2001; Michigan Quarterly Review, 2006)

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Dust-Jacket Blurb

"I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt myself as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes ... and somehow the activity of writing changes everything."

"I take my writing seriously, but I don't take myself seriously ... that is, I don't feel pontifical or dogmatic. Writing is an absolutely fascinating activity, an immersion in drama, language, and vision."

—Joyce Carol Oates