The Lost Landscape (35 page)

The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature
(1972)

New Heaven, New Earth: The Visionary Experience in Literature
(1974)

Contraries
(1981)

The Profane Art: Essays and Reviews
(1983)

On Boxing
(1987)

(Woman) Writer: Occasions and Opportunities
(1988)

George Bellows: American Artist
(1995)

Where I've Been and Where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose
(1999)

The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
(2003)

Uncensored: Views and (Re)views
(2005)

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973–1982
(2007)

In Rough Country: Essays and Reviews
(2010)

A Widow's Story: A Memoir
(2011)

Cover design by Allison Saltzman

Front cover photograph: Joyce Carol Oates in 1948, taken by her father, Fred Oates, and courtesy of the author.

THE LOST LANDSCAPE
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