Self-Interview: Joyce Carol Oates Vs. Joyce Carol Oates (Part 1 of 3)

In which I take on my toughest and most unrelenting interrogator.

Edited and arranged by Robert Friedman

Has the interview become the predominant literary genre of our time?—many a writer has suspected so, uneasily.  Persons with no evident interest in books may read, with a modicum of interest, an interview with a writer; it’s a genre more readily skimmed than even a book review.  Usually short, presented in dialogue …