"Tracking the elusive author" / Betty Lee -- "Oates" / Alfred Kazin -- "The dark lady of American letters" / Joe David Bellamy -- "Joyce Carol Oates: Love and violence" / Walter Clemons -- "Transformation of self: an interview with Joyce Carol Oates" / The Editors -- "Correspondence with Miss Joyce Carol Oates" / Dale Boesky -- "Joyce Carol Oates: the art of fiction" / 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 -- "Joyce Carol Oates and the hardest part of writing" / Michael Schumacher -- "An interview with Joyce Carol Oates" / Lawrence Grobel -- "The sunny side of Joyce Carol Oates" / Laurence Shyer -- "Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates" / Stig Björkman -- "Closer to the bone" / Rebecca Frankel -- "Joyce Carol Oates on Marilyn Monroe" / Lawrence Grobel -- "The new Monroe Doctrine" / Aida Edemariam -- "Oates' young adult novels" / Various online interviewers -- "Fictions of the new millennium: An interview with Joyce Carol Oates" / Greg Johnson.