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February 18, 2019
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Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie whose latest book of stories is The Accomplished Guest, is the fiction editor of the Scholar.

At Last, Good News for the Holiday Season!

by Ann Beattie | Monday, December 17, 2018

A Dream of a Writer

Peter Taylor’s stories reveal an artist immersed in the quotidian who rose to the complexities of the heart and psyche

by Ann Beattie | Tuesday, September 05, 2017

On Visitors

When the Bachelor Girl and the Red Death come calling, are they mirrors for our eccentricities?

by Ann Beattie | Monday, June 09, 2014

(Full Disclosure)

Conflicts, more or less of interest

by Ann Beattie | Monday, March 06, 2017

Break the Rules

by Ann Beattie | Monday, October 06, 2014

Summer Visitors

Buy a house in Maine and they will come. And come.

by Ann Beattie | Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Wheeling

by Ann Beattie | Friday, December 01, 2006

The Gypsy Chooses the Whatever Card

by Ann Beattie | Wednesday, September 01, 2010

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”