Award-winning writer Joyce Carol Oates will read from and discuss her work during a visit to campus on Friday, Mar. 11. All are welcome to attend the program at 11 a.m. in the BTC Auditorium.
Oates, an eminent and prolific writer of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction since the early 1960s, is a winner of the National Book Award and has repeatedly made the New York Times Notable Books of the Year list.
Alan Cheuse of the Chicago Tribune describes Oates- writing as having “an intensity that we haven-t felt in the American art story-and I-m serious about this although it might seem extravagant to say-since the work of Poe.” Of Oates- newest collection of stories, “Sourland,” he continues, “Making sense of life in a cataclysmic inner and outer landscape has been Joyce Carol Oates- obsession for five decades. This evocative new collection shows just how much sense she can make of it now.”
Born in 1938, Oates grew up in Lockport, New York and brings elements of her working-class upbringing into much of her work. In addition to her writing, she is a professor in the creative writing department at Princeton University.
The event is presented by the English Department, the Cultural Affairs Program and HVCC READS.
HVCC READS hosts event on Mar. 11.
Published: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 by d.gardner