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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.

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

2nd Look

Fathers and Sons

by James McConkey

“Could we have been better parents?” At 87, Cornell emeritus professor James McConkey reflects on the inadvertent ways that parents—especially fathers—shape their children. “Most parents don’t want their children to suffer the kind of grief inflicted on them by their own parents,” he says in this essay from our Spring 2008 issue. “By saving them from that, though, they may inflict upon their children difficulties of another kind.” As the father to three sons, McConkey is acutely aware of how his relationship with his own father informed his relationship with his children. His essay “What Kind of Father Am I?” is a meditation on aging, parenthood, and the bond between fathers and sons.