Young adult fiction note week 12: Joyce Carol Oates’"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over 40 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
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"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch Magazine.  From wikipedia



First published in Epoch, Fall 1966. Included in Prize Stories: O Henry Award Winners (1968), and The Best American Short Stories (1967).
From: https://celestialtimepiece.com/2015/01/21/where-are-you-going-where-have-you-been/

Part of the text:

Connie spent around the house—it was summer
vacation—getting in her mother s way and thinking,
dreaming about the boys she met. But all the boys fell
back and dissolved into a single face that was not
even a face but an idea, a feeling, mixed up with the
urgent insistent pounding of the music and the humid
night air of July.




Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, orSU,^[7] is a private research university in Syracuse, New York.
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Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation.



"Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released as a single and on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylanin 1963.