Ann Beattie, Reluctant Voice of a Generation; The Boomers' Scribe, Back in the Spotlight With `Picturing Will'

The Washington Post | February 4, 1990| | Copyright

Ann Beattie lives on the top of a hill, near the empty end of a circle. Her brick house with blue shutters is taking a sunbath this afternoon. It would be dead quiet, but for a few birds chirping and the echoes of Beattie's cowboy boots clomping around. She's answering the cordless kitchen phone, which is-unfortunately and fortunately-forever ringing.

"Are you kidding?" she says to somebody who's called to see if she's got any unpublished short stories left to sell. "I can't get arrested at the New Yorker."

Maybe the New Yorker magazine-which first published Beattie when she was 27, and ...

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