Q&A: Joyce Carol Oates on Wonderland, Happy Chicken, and becoming a writer

Joyce Carol Oates opens the door of her Princeton home and says, "Come in. It's very warm." It's also a day of arrivals. Copies of her new book, The Lost Landscape, a collection of autobiographical essays, are here ("I haven't actually seen it yet," she says, taking one out of the box). So is a new kitten. Princeton professor, novelist