Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates

University Press of Mississippi

Conversations with Joyce Carol OatesAuthor(s): Lee Milazzo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9780878054121, 978-0878054121\nSynopsis\nThese twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In these conversations from sources as diverse as major news magazines and small scholarly journals, Oates candidly talks about her work, her concepts of literature, her methods of writing, and many other topics.\n\nThroughout this anthology, Oates discusses how her writing paints a modern panorama of American life. Oates described her vast canvas to an interviewer: \""\""I could not take the time to write about a group of people who did not represent, in their various struggles, fantasies, unusual experiences, hopes, etc., our society in miniature.\""\"" She also comments upon her responsibility as an artist \""\""to bear witn.