The Dark Lady of American Letters, This Friday

Joyce Carol Oates, a towering figure of contemporary fiction, and a favorite to win the Nobel Prize for a quarter century, and a regular visitor to the New York State Summer Writers Institute, will speak on Friday the 13th of July in Saratoga. 8PM, free and open to the public, Davis Audiorium, Palamountain Hall, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs.

All events in the series are free and open to the general public

Her most recent book is The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares: Novellas and Stories of Unspeakable Dread (2011).

Publishers Weekly said, "The seven stories in this stellar collection from the prolific Oates (Give Me Your Heart) may prompt the reader to turn on all the lights or jump at imagined noises.... This volume burnishes Oates’s reputation as a master of psychological dread."