Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...

Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the emotional...

David Carlson's third opera, a setting of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, has its world premiere in April at Florida Grand Opera. David Carlson came to major attention in 1996, with the world premiere of Dreamkeepers at Utah Opera. His newest opera - and his...

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