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Fear Not. Have Fun: Ann Beattie on Lessons in Cooking and Life from James Haller
Last week I was sitting with my husband at the Dover NH library. I’d never been in before. Lovely! Beautiful wood, big windows overlooking large trees. A bit of confusion finding the room, but once...
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Jonathan Lethem on Discovering “Worlds Within the World”
Books are written in solitude, but writers do some of their finest work with crowds—in public talks, interviews, and events. The best moments from those strange, dramatic interactions often go missing,...
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Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon
Donald Barthelme and I were friends, though before we met, I loved—and taught, as a graduate teaching assistant in Connecticut—Come Back, Dr. Calagari. I think about him a lot and miss him (he died too...
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More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme,...
Acclaimed fiction writer Ann Beattie joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her recent LitHub essay about Donald Barthelme’s short story “The Balloon” and the Chinese spy...
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The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s...
As Johnny Carson used to say (this, or some variation, often enough that he was made fun of for doing it), “That was weird wild stuff.” Adding: “I did not know that.” (It’s a four second clip on...
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24 new books out today.
It’s the middle of July, and, almost no matter where you might be reading this from, you may have experienced some unusual weather recently, from record-breaking heatwaves to apocalyptic wildfire haze...
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Ann Beattie! Mysterious Korean SF! Colin Channer! 26 books out in paperback...
July is here! And, as ever, that means (amongst other things) that there are heaps of new books to look forward to. Today, we’re focusing on books newly being released in paperback this month. And...
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