Baby

Joyce Carol Oates\u27s most recent books are Solstice, a novel, and Last Days, a collection of short stories

Mr. Rooster

The behavior of barnyard roosters, replicating the more belligerent, strutting-preening-aggressive macho behavior of many male creatures, was a source of endless fascination, and trepidation, to me as a young child growing up on a small farm in the “north country” of western New York State

The Rehearsal

Joyce Carol Oates\u27s new novel is Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (William Abrahams/Dutton, 1993). Her play The Perfectionist will open the McCarter Theatre 1993-94 season in October. The Rehearsal had its premier performance in the spring at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Manhattan

The Authority of Timelessness (Robert Fagles, Tess Gallagher, Artur Lundqvist, David R. Slavitt)

JOYCE CAROL OATES\u27S new novel will be the gothic Bellefleur, to be published by Dutton

The Dream Boxes of Gloria Vanderbilt

Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of Middle Age: A Romance (Ecco/HarperCollins), and, in 1995, George Bellows: American Artist (Ecco)