Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent books are Because It is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (Dutton) and I Lock the Door Myself (Ecco).
Fiction Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
| The Execution | Number 59 |
| The Blind Man's Sighted Daughters | Vol. 20, No. 2 |
| The Mutants | Vol. 18, No. 1 |
| The Beat Reporter | Vol. 16, No. 2 |
| What Then, My Life? | Vol. 15, No. 2 |
| The Penitent | Vol. 14, No. 2 |
| Hammerklavier | Vol. 11, No. 3 |
| Goose Girl | Vol. 10, No. 3 |
| Letter, Lover | Vol. 10, Nos. 1&2 |
| That Summer | Vol. 9, No. 1 |
| Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia | Vol. 7, No. 3 & Vol. 8, No. 1 |
| Sunday Blues | Vol. 5, No. 1 |
| The Tempter | Vol. 3, Nos. 2&3 |