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...
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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 identi...
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As I was saying, there’s no one like Frank Langella in American theater—unless, of course, it’s Marian Seldes. Mr. Langella is a star actor who wo...
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IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME AND OUT OF BODY to watch yourself working at today's appointments, what would you see? The visits—20, 30, even more—would be quite a parade of people, anima...
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Ann Beattie
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