Come out to Labyrinth Books in Princeton for a conversation about writing, inspiration, and process with award-winning author, Joyce Carol Oates, and shot story writer, Aimee LaBrie. Both Oates and LaBrie teach undergraduate creative writing at Rutgers Writers House, and Oates also teaches at Princeton University and NYU.
In her award-winning collection of short stories, Rage & Other Cages, Aimee LaBrie offers lessons on grief, loneliness, and relationships that examine what it means to be female in todays America. Joyce Carol Oates calls LaBries writing Mordantly funny, eerily discomforting, & unexpectedly wise an audacious gathering of stories mirroring our contemporary world.
Aimee LaBries short stories have appeared in The Minnesota Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, StoryQuarterly, Cimarron Review, Pleiades, Beloit Fiction Journal, Permafrost Magazine, and others. In 2020, her short story Rage won first place in Solstice Literary Magazines Annual Literary Contest and her novel in progress won the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award. Her short fiction has been nominated five times for Pushcart Prizes. In 2012 she won first place in the Zoetrope: All-Storys Short Fiction Competition.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the Prix Femina, and the Cino Del Duca World Prize. She has been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and the New York Times best seller The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind 52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University.
This event is cosponsored by Labyrinth Books, The Princeton Public Library, Princeton University Humanities Council, The Lewis Center for the Arts, Rutgers Universitys Department of English, and the Writers House at Rutgers.