05/09/2012
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: CH2M HILL Alumni Center
725 SW 26 Street Corvallis, Oregon 97330
541-737-0724
Joyce Carol Oates will give a reading at Oregon State University, with a reception and book signing to follow.
The OSU Bookstore will be on hand to sell her works at a reception following the reading.
About Joyce Carol Oates:
The dramatic trajectory of Oates's career, especially her amazing rise from an economically straitened childhood to her current position as one of the world's most eminent authors, suggests a feminist, literary version of the mythic pursuit and achievement of the American dream. Yet for all her success and fame, Oates's daily routine of teaching and writing has changed very little, and her commitment to literature as a transcendent human activity remains steadfast. Not surprisingly, a quotation from that other prolific American writer, Henry James, is affixed to the bulletin board over her desk, and perhaps best expresses her own ultimate view of her life and writing: "We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
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