Joyce Carol Oates at home / Walter Clemons -- An interview with Joyce Carol Oates / Linda Kuehl -- Hunger for dreams / Paul D. Zimmerman -- The dark lady of American letters / Joe David Bellamy -- An interview with Joyce Carol Oates / John Alfred Avant -- Joyce Carol Oates : love and violence / Walter Clemons -- Focus on Joyce Carol Oates / Michael and Ariane Batterberry -- Transformation of self : an interview with Joyce Carol Oates / The Ohio Review -- Joyce Carol Oates / Judith Applebaum -- Joyce Carol Oates : The art of fiction LXXII / Robert Phillips -- The emergence of Joyce Carol Oates / Lucinda Franks -- Speaking about short fiction : an interview with Joyce Carol Oates / Sanford Pinsker -- An interview with Joyce Carol Oates / Leif Sjoberg -- A taste of Oates / Jay Parini -- A conversation with Joyce Carol Oates / Frank McLaughlin.

My friend, Joyce Carol Oates : an intimate protrait / Elaine Showalter -- Joyce Carol Oates and the hardest part of writing / Michael Schumacher -- A sad Joyce Carol Oates forswears pseudonyms / Edwin McDowell -- A heavyweight looks at boxing / George Vecsey -- My writing is full of lives I might have led / Jay Parini -- Making readers want novels is writer's hardest job / Michele Weldon -- Joyce Carol Oates keeps punching / Robert Compton -- A day in the life / Rita D. Jacobs -- Author Oates tells where she's been, where she's going / David Germain -- Oates writes out of "fascination," not zeal / George Myers, Jr.