![]() ![]() She writes about both men and women, ordinary people and professional people, Easterners and country folk, the unloved, those caught up in the web of first love, the married, and the bereaved, families with children, widows, the famous, the gifted but underrated, celebrities and those who toil away at their lives in obscurity. However, what matters is the quality of it all.Īnd Oates is a giant among us, as prolific as the worst of the writers who produce dreck and turn it into cash, but thoroughly wonderful and important. That is one hell of a lot of fiction, novel length and short. It's become a cliche to point out that Oates is an unnatural phenomenon of productivity - this past year or so, she's put out two novels, a quartet of novellas and two volumes of stories, the most recent of which is the 400-page collection Lovely, Dark, Deep. ![]() But Joyce Carol Oates is an entire sports complex, including the Olympic-sized pools and the locker rooms. Norman Mailer, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, may have compared himself to some of the heavyweights of modern literature. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Lovely, Dark, Deep Subtitle Stories Author Joyce Carol Oates ![]()
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