Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7pm, Music Building, $20

J o y c e   C a r o l   O a t e s  
with Leonard Lopate

Joyce Carol Oates is the National Book Award-winning author of many novels and collections of stories, including them, We Were the Mulvaneys, Heat and Other Stories, Black Water, Blonde, I Am No One You Know, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, The Falls, Dear Husband, and, most recently, Little Bird of Heaven, which is forthcoming in the fall of 2009. The Detroit Free Press has said of Ms. Oates’s work: “…people will be reading [it] a century from now, the way we read Dickens and Henry James, not only for its perfect evocation of time and place, but for its timeless grace and clarity.” John Updike, writing in The New Yorker, has described the work of Ms. Oates as “a storm of experience whose reality we cannot doubt, a fusion of fact and feeling, vision and circumstance, which holds together, and holds us to it through our terror and dismay.” The New York Times Book Review has said: “What keeps us coming back to Oates…is her uncanny gift of making the page a window with something happening on the other side that we’d swear was life itself.” The Washington Post Book World has said: “To read Oates is to cross an emotional minefield, to be stunned to the soul by multiple explosions, but to emerge to safety again with the skull ringing with shocked revelation and clarity…. [Oates is] one of America’s finest realistic novelists.”

In addition to reading from her work, Ms. Oates will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.