Monday, November 17
7:30 pm
Bedford Middle School Auditorium
Joyce Carol Oates will be in conversation with Westporter Sybil Steinberg at the 7th Annual Malloy Lecture in the Arts. Oates, nominated three times for a Nobel Prize, is one of America's most versatile, serious writers, the author of a number of distinguished books in several genres, all published within the past twenty-five years.
In addition to numerous novels and short story collections, she has published several volumes of poetry, several books of plays, and five books of literary criticism. Often Oates's "vision" is that of a highly complex America populated with presumably ordinary families who experience common yet intense emotions and relationships and who frequently encounter violence.
Her newest children’s book, Naughty Cherie, was published in January 2008. Come Meet Muffin! a children's book, was published in 1998. Black Water was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In January 2001 We Were The Mulvaneys was selected as an Oprah Book of the Month.
Click here for Joyce Carol Oates website
Books will be available for purchase and signing. Registration required for this event. Click here to register No tickets issued, just check-in at the door.
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Vartan Gregorian was the speaker at the 6th Annual Malloy Lecture in the Arts on April 29, 2008. He discussed the importance of libraries in society. Gregorian is the twelfth president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and past president of the New York Public Library. The Malloy Lecture is a unique educational venue which encourages dialogue and discussion.