Edmund White, the influential American novelist who chronicled gay life through his semi-autobiographical work, including ...

The musician talks with Amanda Petrusich about his two new albums of ambient music, and his book “What Art Does,” a pocket-size argument for the value of feelings in our lives. The sports ...

Before last summer, the only Oates I had read was the one short story that everyone reads, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” I think I was seventeen. I remembered it vividly ...

So thank god for Pulitzer Prize-nominated and National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates, who seems to understand our feelings, and realizes that the only thing that can help Americans ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— Author Joyce Carol Oates will give a reading at Bard ... Were the Mulvaneys,” “Blonde,” and “The Falls.” The reading, presented as part of Bradford Morrow ...

Writers and Company52:11Prolific and daring author Joyce Carol Oates on her childhood, widowhood and concerns about American society As Writers & Company wraps up after a remarkable 33-year run ...

Joyce Carol Oates has taught us a lot through her books, but perhaps we can also learn from her life: keep moving, keep creating and never stop doing what you love.

Author Joyce Carol Oates and Charity Nebbe at the Des Moines Public Library May 30. Oates appeared in Iowa to discuss her new novel, Butcher. Joyce Carol Oates isn’t afraid to confront the ...

The writer and National Book Award winner on his book “James.” Julian Lucas on Hilton Als’s “The Islander” The reporter’s casually piercing, coolly amused Profile of Derek Walcott ...

“Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer” is an unconventional work due to its epistolary nature. Rather than writing about Oates’s life himself, editor Greg Johnson — her longtime ...

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal ... as well as the national bestsellers "We Were The Mulvaneys," "Blonde," "The Falls," "The Gravedigger’s Daughter" and "The Accursed." ...

When Joyce Carol Oates was thirty-four ... He has a bushy white beard and straight hair that falls to the bottom of his neck. “You probably paid for the first meal,” she says, starting ...