Joyce Carol Oates: Meet the Author (Online)

Joyce Carol Oates joins Tonya Aikens, CEO of Howard County Library System, for a special conversation.

Joyce Carol Oates is among the most versatile and accomplished American writers. Oates has penned bestselling novels, critically acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, a memoir, and an unlikely bestseller. Available June 9, her newest novel, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars., is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy.

When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.

About the author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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The recording will be available between June 1 - June 8. Links will be emailed beginning on June 1.

Joyce Carol Oates' new novel Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. will be released on June 9th, 2020. Pre-order your copy from Books with a Past at bookswithapast.com or by emailing [email protected]. A limited number of signed books plates are available. Limit one book plate per order.

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