Joyce Carol Oates

In this special evening, Joyce Carol Oates, reflects on the trajectory of her remarkable career—from growing up with meager means on a farm in rural New York, to the people, places, and events that influenced and inspired her, to her approach to writing and the writer’s life. Since winning the Mademoiselle ... (more)College Fiction contest 50 years ago at age 19, Oates has become one of the world’s most eminent writers. She is credited with producing some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Falls, and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. To date, she has written 56 novels, 32 collections of short stories, and 8 volumes of poetry, as well as drama, young adult and children’s fiction, and numerous nonfiction works. She has received the National Book Award, the PEN/ Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Since 1978, Oates has taught in the creative writing program at Princeton University, where she is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities.

The stars are right for the return of the H.P. Lovecraft Memorial Ice Cream Social! Hear tales of unspeakable horror, see (and possibly win) forbidden tomes and strange artefacts, and partake of frozen confections colder than the howling void!Come - and TEST THE LIMITS OF YOUR SANITY!

Author Joyce Carol Oates will read from a selection of her favorite works. A book signing follows.

Book Group #3 meets to discuss Joyce Carol Oates's We Were the Mulvaneys. All book groups are free to join and all are welcome!
For more on Joyce Carol Oates, click here

This months Book Club selection is "Missing Mom" by Joyce Carol Oates. Please join us on the 3rd Monday of every month at 7:00pm. Come hang out with us in our new Cozy Nook meeting area. We are always looking for new members!

Admission $5
"Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway… some of the most revered writers in the canon are now brought back to life and death by the fertile mind of Joyce Carol Oates. In Wild Nights!,Oates reimagines the final days of these literary legends, weaving each story with its own ... (more)unique and delicious twist. Poe becomes a solitary lighthouse keeper in the South Pacific, Henry James endures working in the visceral conditions of a London hospital in 1914, and in Emily Dickinson’s case, her tale centers on her rebirth in the New Jersey of the future."

Admission $5
"Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway… some of the most revered writers in the canon are now brought back to life and death by the fertile mind of Joyce Carol Oates. In Wild Nights!,Oates reimagines the final days of these literary legends, weaving each story with its own ... (more)unique and delicious twist. Poe becomes a solitary lighthouse keeper in the South Pacific, Henry James endures working in the visceral conditions of a London hospital in 1914, and in Emily Dickinson’s case, her tale centers on her rebirth in the New Jersey of the future."