Joyce Carol Oates, THE (OTHER) YOU

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Zibby interviewed literary legend Joyce Carol Oates as part of Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center's 'Women on the Move' series. Their recorded conversation, released here as a podcast, touches on Oates's two newest releases, American Melancholy and The (Other) You, as well as how she has approached writing during the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a Quarantine Anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
0:25.0	And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there.
0:29.1	And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens.
0:32.9	And my website is Zibby Owens.com.
0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.8	I was so honored to interview Joyce Carol Oates. I really couldn't even believe it when an email came across my, you know,
0:46.6	inbox where she was cced and I had to confirm our interview for the Stryker Center at Temple
0:51.4	Emanuel. I was going to write back, Joyce, so excited. But then I was like, how can I just call her Joyce? I feel like, I don't know. So anyway, I interviewed her for the Temple of Manuel Stryker Center. It was amazing. And hundreds of people were there listening virtually. This is the recording of that interview, which I did that day, and I hope you enjoy it as much
1:12.1	as I did.
1:12.8	For those of you who don't know, Joyce Carol Oates is America's most prolific and celebrated
1:17.8	living author.
1:18.5	She published her first book at the age of 26, won the National Book Award when she was just 31,
1:24.3	and for her 58 novels and scores of plays, novellas, short stories, poetry, and essays
1:31.0	won the National Humanities Medal, the Jerusalem Prize, two O'Henry Awards, and has been a five-time
1:37.3	finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. We talked about her collection of poems, American melancholy,
1:43.7	and a collection of stories,
1:45.5	The Other You.
1:46.6	Enjoy our conversation.
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