The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was this past weekend, April 22-23rd. Joyce Carol Oates had a panel on Saturday, in the Bovard Auditorium at USC, and San Diego Literary Scene was there. Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Her work includes: Blonde, which was a finalist for the National Book Award & the Pulitzer Prize, We Were the Mulvaneys, and The Gravedigger's Daughter.
Oates was interviewed by Steph Cha. Cha is the noir editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times. The conversation centered around Joyce Carol Oates' latest book A Book of American Martyrs. The novel opens in the year 1999, with a killing. A man who considers himself a soldier of Christ, shoots a doctor who performs abortions. Over the course of the novel, we see the consequences of this act in the aftermath, as they ripple through the families of both the doctor and his killer. Oates talked about writing the book before Trump was elected, and the current political climate.
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