Profiles in Periodicals:
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: 72-74, 77.
Dong, Stella. "Five Bestselling Writers Recall Their First Novels." Publishers Weekly 10 Oct. 1980: 47-48.
Driscoll, F. Paul. "Going to the Opera . . . with Joyce Carol Oates." Opera News 62(3 Jan. 1998): 26-29.
Golightly, B. "Out of the Limelight." Horizon June 1984: 10.
Greenwalt, Julie. "Joyce Carol Oates Leads Two Lives: Dark Lady of U.S. Fiction and Shy Faculty Wife." People 15 Nov. 1976: 66, 68.
Griffin, Bryan F. "Panic among the Phillistines: The Collapse of the Literary Establishment." Harper's Aug. 1981: 48.
Johnson, Greg. "Joyce Carol Oates Goes to College: Syracuse, 1956-1960." Five Points; A Journal of Literature and Art 2(Spring-Summer 1998): 42-68.
"The Joys of Friendship among Today's New Women." Today's Health Sep. 1974: 63-65.
Kloberdanz, Kristin. "Joyce Carol Oates." Book 16(May/June 2001): 42-43.
Krystal, A. "Ifs, Ands, Butts." Harper's Magazine June 1987: 63-67.
Meadows, Susannah. "The Producer." Newsweek 17 Sep. 2001: 64.
Nathan, Paul. "Darkside." [Report on Sale of Feature Rights to Soul/Mate.] Entertainment Weekly 15 Feb. 1993: 21.
Parini, Jay. "A Taste of Oates." Horizon Nov.-Dec. 1983: 50.
Pearlman, Mickey. "Joyce Carol Oates." Onthebus 2/3(Summer-Fall 1990/Winter-Spring 1991): 255-262.
Reed, J.D. "Postfeminism: Playing for Keeps." Time 10 Jan. 1983: 60.
Showalter, Elaine. "My Friend Joyce Carol Oates: An Intimate Portrait." Ms. Mar. 1986: 44-46+. Reprinted In: Bloom, Harold, ed. Modern Critical Views: Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.
Shyer, Laurence. "The Sunny Side of Joyce Carol Oates." American Theater 11(Feb. 1994): 22-26.
Silet, Charles L.P. "Rosamond Smith AKA Joyce Carol Oates." Mystery Scene 62(1999): 60-64.
Spencer, Scott. "Joyce Carol Oates." BOMB 31(Spring 1990): 42-44, 48.
Tadjer, Rivka. "Block Busting." Working Woman 24(Mar. 1999): 83.
"Writing as a Natural Reaction." Time 10 Oct. 1969: 8.