Joyce Carol Oates was the winner of this year's Blue Metropolis Grand Prix. The prolific American writer in an onstage conversation with Eleanor Wachtel, recorded in Montreal. Joyce Carol Oates's newest novel is called "Mudwoman".

Music to close the show:

CD:  AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSERS
PERFORMER: Natalie Hinderas
COMPOSER: Nathaniel R. Dett
CUT 3: "In the Bottoms/3rd movement"
CRI CD 629