Surrealism, horror, comedy, social satire, feminism and revenge are platters best served hot. Legendary writer Joyce Carol Oates, 85, is the author of 160 books. Starting in 1964 and continuing with her new book Fox, Oates, who lived in Mercer County for 32 years and taught at Princeton University, is best known for We Were The Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Falls, Daddy Love and Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang. In 2023, her Zero-Sum came out and blew my mind. The short stories in this explosive volume get weirder and weirder.