Joyce Carol Oates to speak at UNLV

   Joyce Carol Oates, a prolific author and winner of the National Book Award, will give a reading and talk at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Student Union Ballroom at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway. Her visit is part of the Black Mountain Institute Forum on Contemporary Cultures series at UNLV and is free and open to the public.
   Oates has written novels, short stories, essays, poetry, plays and children’s books. Among her recent titles are “My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike”; “The Gravedigger’s Daughter”; “Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway”; “Black Girl/White Girl”; “High Lonesome, New and Selected Stories 1966-2006”; and “The Tattooed Girl.”
   Oates won the National Book Award in 1970 for “Them,” and has been a finalist for the award on five other occasions. She also has been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize three times, including for “Blonde” in 2001.
   For further details on her appearance at UNLV, call the Black Mountain Institute at 895-5542.