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Ann Beattie

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

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L’Après-Midi d’un Minimalist Writer

by Ann Beattie | Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Literary Information Derived From Privileged Writers

Literary Information Derived From Privileged Writers

Did they know how good they had it?

by Ann Beattie | Monday, March 04, 2019
At Last, Good News for the Holiday Season!

At Last, Good News for the Holiday Season!

by Ann Beattie | Monday, December 17, 2018
A Dream of a Writer

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
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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)

(Full Disclosure)

Conflicts, more or less of interest

by Ann Beattie | Monday, March 06, 2017
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Break the Rules

by Ann Beattie | Monday, October 06, 2014
Summer Visitors

Summer Visitors

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

by Ann Beattie | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
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Wheeling

by Ann Beattie | Friday, December 01, 2006
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The Gypsy Chooses the Whatever Card

by Ann Beattie | Wednesday, September 01, 2010
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”