Interviews with Oates:
Books of Interviews with Oates
Milazzo, Lee, ed. Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates. Jackson, MS: U P of Mississippi, 1989.
Clemons, Walter. "Joyce Carol Oates: Love and Violence." 32-41.
Germain, David. "Author Tells Where She''s Been, Where She's Going." 173-180.
Kuehl, Linda. "An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." 7-13. Reprinted From: Commonweal 5 Dec. 1969: 307-310.
Myers, George, Jr. "Oates Writes out of 'Fascination,' Not Zeal." 181-186.
Phillips, Robert. "Joyce Carol Oates: The Art of Fiction." 62-81. Reprinted From: Paris Review Fall 1978: 199-206.
Schumacher, Michael. "Joyce Carol Oates and the Hardest Part of Writing." 135-146. Reprinted From: Writer's Digest Apr. 1986: 30-34.
Sjoberg, Leif. "An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." 101-118.
Reviews
Petry, A.H. "The Americas." Modern Fiction Studies 36(Winter 1990): 569-572.
Interviews with Oates in Books on Other Topics
Bellamy, Joe David. "Interview with Oates." The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers. Ed. Joe David Bellamy. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1974. 19-31.
Hiemstra, Anne. "A Bibliography of Writings about Joyce Carol Oates." American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Lexington, KY: U P of Kentucky, 1989. 35-44.
Jordan, Shirley Marie, ed. "Joyce Carol Oates." Broken Silences: Interviews with Black and White Women Writers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1993.
Pearlman, Mickey, and Katherine Usher Henderson. Inter/view: Talks with America's Writing Women. Lexington, KY: U P of Kentucky, 1990.
Philips, Robert. "Joyce Carol Oates: The Art of Fiction." Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Viking, 1988. Reprinted From: The Paris Review 74(1978). Reprinted In: Women Writers at Work. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Modern Library, 1998.
Smith, Lucinda. Women Who Write: From the Past and the Present to the Future. Messner, 1989.
Woodruff, Jay, ed. "Joyce Carol Oates." A Piece of Work: Five Writers Discuss Their Revisions. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1993. 149-227.
The Writing Life: National Book Award Winners. New York: Random, 1995. 191-194. Reprinted From: Interview.
Interviews with Oates in Periodicals
Applebaum, Judith. "Joyce Carol Oates." Publishers Weekly 26 June 1978: 12-13.
Aronson, Harvey. "Joyce, Joan, and Lois: Woman's Need vs. Writer's Ego." Cosmopolitan Jan. 1971: 102-103, 115-117.
"Author Joyce Carol Oates on 'Adolescent America.'" U.S. News and World Report 15 May 1978: 60.
Avant, John Alfred. "An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Library Journal 15 Nov. 1972: 3711-3712.
Batterberry, Michael, and Ariane Batterberry. "Focus on Joyce Carol Oates." Harper's Bazaar Sep. 1973: 159, 174, 176.
Bellamy, Joe David. "The Dark Lady of American Letters." Atlantic Monthly Feb. 1972: 63-67.
Bower, Warren. "Bliss in the First Person." Saturday Review 26 Oct. 1968: 34-35.
Clemons, Walter. "Joyce Carol Oates: Love and Violence." Newsweek 11 Dec. 1972: 72-77.
Fitzsimmons, Kate. "Wild Oates: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." San Francisco Review of Books Oct./Nov. 1994: 26-28.
Grobel, Lawrence. "Playboy Interview: Joyce Carol Oates." Playboy Nov. 1993: 63-76.
Johnson, Greg. "Blonde Ambition: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Prairie Schooner 75(Fall 2001): 15-19.
Kazin, Alfred. "Oates." Harper's Aug. 1971: 78-82.
Keenan, Margaret M. "A Writing Workshop with Joyce Carol Oates." Princeton Alumni Weekly 5 Nov. 1979: 20-21, 28-29.
Kuehl, Linda. "An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Commonweal 5 Dec. 1969: 307-310. Reprinted In: Milazzo, Lee, ed. Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates. Jackson, MS: U P of Mississippi, 1989. 7-13.
Lardner, Susan. "Oracular Oates." New Yorker 3 Jan. 1977: 74, 76.
McLaughlin, Frank. "A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates." Writing! Sep. 1985: 21-23.
Millard, Barbara C. "Talking with Joyce Carol Oates." Four Quarters 2(Fall 1988): 17-22.
Philips, Robert. "Joyce Carol Oates: The Art of Fiction." Paris Review Fall 1978: 199-206. Reprinted In: Milazzo, Lee, ed. Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates. Jackson, MS: U P of Mississippi, 1989. 62-81.
Pinsker, Sanford. "Speaking about Short Fiction: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Studies in Short Fiction 18(Summer 1981): 239-243.
"PW Talks with Joyce Carol Oates." Publishers Weekly 14 Feb. 2000: 172.
Schumacher, Michael. "Joyce Carol Oates and the Hardest Part of Writing." Writer's Digest Apr. 1986: 30-34. Reprinted In: Milazzo, Lee. Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates. Jackson, MS: U P of Mississippi, 1989. 135-146.
Showalter, Elaine. "My Friend, Joyce Carol Oates: An Intimate Portrait." Ms. Mar. 1986: 44-50.
Shyer, Laurence. "The Sunny Side of Joyce Carol Oates." American Theater Feb. 1994: 23-26.
Sjoberg, Leif. "An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Contemporary Literature 23(Summer 1982): 267-284.
Todd, David Y. "An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Gettyburg Review 6(Spring 1993): 291-299.
"Transformation of Self: An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates." Ohio Review Autumn 1973: 50-61.
Wilson, John. "A Piece of Work: Five Writers Discuss Their Revisions." Magill Book Reviews 1 June 1993.
"Writing as a Natural Reaction." Time 10 Oct. 1969: 8.
Zimmerman, Paul D. "Hunger for Dreams." Newsweek 23 Mar. 1970: A, 109.
Interviews with Oates in Newspapers
Chambers, Veronica. "Which Counts More, Gender or Race? Bebe Moore Campbell and Joyce Carol Oates." New York Times Magazine 25 Dec. 1994: 16-19. Reprinted In: New York Times Biographical Service 25(Dec. 1994): 2000-2003.
Clemons, Walter. "Joyce Carol Oates at Home." New York Times Book Review 28 Sep. 1969: 4-5, 48.
Cook, Louis. "Joyce Carol Oates: Success and Failure in the Big-Time." Detroit Free Press Magazine 14 Mar. 1966: 6-8.
Dudar, Helen. "She Wrote about 'Them.'" New York Post Weekend Magazine 14 Mar. 1970: 19-20.
Franks, Lucinda. "The Emergence of Joyce Carol Oates." New York Times Magazine 27 July 1980: 22, 26, 30, 32, 41-44, 46.
Johnson, Greg. Atlanta Journal Constitution 12 Mar. 2000.
Lee, Betty. "Tracking the Elusive Author." Toronto Globe and Mail 14 Mar. 1970: B, 8.
McCombs, Phil. "The Demonic Imagination of Joyce Carol Oates." Washington Post 18 Aug. 1986: C, 1, 11.
McDowell, Edwin. "A Sad Joyce Carol Oates Forswears Pseudonyms." New York Times 2 Feb. 1987: C, 12.
O'Briant, Don. "A Little Wilder Joyce Carol Oates." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 23 Apr. 1986: C, 1, 6.
Plump, Wendy. "Oates Entwines Fact and Fiction in Book Mirroring PU Scandal." Princeton Packet 28 Aug. 1990: A, 1, 8.
Quinn, Sally. "Joyce Carol Oates: A Life Within." Washington Post 30 Apr. 1975: B, 1, 11.
Salisbury, Stephan. "For Librarians, a Mixed Bag of Views from Oates, Others." Philadelphia Inquirer 12 July 1982: D, 1, 7.
Schaeffer, Edwina. "Author Shuns Spoken Word." Detroit News 15 Jan. 1964: E, 1, 2.
Silverman, William. "She Lets Her Fingers Do the Talking." Detroit News 2 Feb. 1969: 6-10.
Skal, Dave. "Joyce Carol Oates: Crazy Scenes and Demon Lovers." Post [Ohio University] 20 Apr. 1973: 3-4.
Slater, Charlotte. "Author on the Rise." Detroit News 29 Oct. 1967: C, 12.
"U. D. Instructor Named Author of the Year." Detroit News 9 Dec. 1964: C, 8.
Wozniak, Mary. "The Parents behind a Literary Genius." Niagara Gazette 9 Mar. 1988.
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