National Book Award-Winning Author Joyce Carol Oates to Give Reading at Bard College, Monday, October 26
 

 ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—On Monday, October 26, widely acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates, recipient of the National Humanities Medal and National Book Award, will read from “Walking Wounded,” a new, unpublished story commissioned especially for its world premiere at this event. Booklist wrote, in praise of her short-story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep, “Oates, one of few writers who achieves excellence in both the novel and the short story, has more than two dozen story collections to her name and she continues to inject new, ambushing power into the form. Oates’s stories seethe and blaze.” Oates will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow. The reading, presented as part of Morrow’s Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series, takes place at 3:00 p.m. in Olin Hall. It is free and open to the public; no reservations are required.

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Creative Writing Emerita at Princeton University, where she taught for 36 years. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

For more information about this event or to be placed on the Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series e-mail list, call 845-758-7054, or e-mail [email protected].

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(10.9.15)

This event was last updated on 10-14-2015

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