Joyce Carol Oates

I haven't talked much about encounters with the literary. Where to begin? How about prolific novelist Joyce Carol Oates? Skinny woman. I can't believe she has so many words inside her. I sat next to her at a play in Louisville. I'd just read her book "Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" -- and come to think of it, I think that's the only book of hers I've ever read. I told her how much I really did love that book. She gave a perfunctory thank you and obviously didn't want to talk. Her husband was there, too. She is a runner. She wore running shoes. I think she runs every morning. Maybe that's why she's so skinny.