Bard College will get a
visit from literary royalty today, October 21, when world-renowned writer Joyce
Carol Oates gives a reading at the campus’s Chapel of the Holy Innocents.
Born in 1938, Oates is
the author of the best-selling novels We Were the Mulvaneys, The
Fall, Black Water, What I Lived For, Blonde,
and Them and the short story collections The Wheel of Love and Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories. The many awards that Oates has received
include the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan
Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize
for Lifetime Achievement, the Prix Femina, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence
in the Art of the Short Story, and the Cino Del Duca World Prize.
The event is being
presented as part of Bard professor Bradford Morrow’s innovative
contemporary fiction course. Morrow and Oates are coediting Conjunctions:83, Revenants,
The Ghost Issue, which will be published in November.
Joyce Carol Oates will
read in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson
on October 21 at 4pm. The reading is free and open to the public.
This article appears in October 2024.
