Bookmark: Joyce Carol Oates

This week, our Bookmark segment tackles the works of Joyce Carol Oates, one of the United States' most prolific and versatile contemporary writers.

Since 1963, she has produced over 1,000 short stories, some 50 novels, a dozen-plus books of essays, plays, and poetry and her works often focus on the spiritual, sexual, and intellectual decline of modern American society.

Columnist and Literary Reviewer Umapagan Ampikaipakan takes a closer look at Oates' works 'The Gravedigger's Daughter', 'Zombie', 'Wonderland', 'Blonde: A Novel' and 'Wild Nights!'