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Ann Beattie Criticism

Ann Beattie is an influential American author known for her incisive portrayal of the "baby boom" generation, particularly the Woodstock cohort navigating the complexities and disillusionments of the 1970s. Her work is frequently featured in The New Yorker, establishing her as a significant voice in contemporary literature. Beattie's early career, marked by short stories and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, reveals her focus on themes of emotional disconnection and the intricacies of personal relationships. Her detached prose style, noted in her interview with Steven R. Centola, often mirrors the existential disenchantment of her characters, with cultural references further highlighting their detachment.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Beattie, Ann (Vol. 18)
    • Notes on Current Books: 'Secrets and Surprises: Short Stories'
    • Keeping Cool
    • Period Fiction: 'Falling in Place'
    • Ann Beattie: Magician of Muddle
    • Life and Letters: 'Falling in Place'
    • Queen of the Passive
    • Falling in Place
    • Books: 'Falling in Place'
    • Marge Piercy and Ann Beattie
  • Beattie, Ann (Vol. 146)
    • An Interview with Ann Beattie
    • An Interview with Ann Beattie
    • Ann Beattie: Less than Minimal
    • Picturing Will
    • Seeing Double
    • What Was Mine
    • Ann Beattie: Emotional Loss and Strategies of Reparation
    • Counternarrative: An Interview with Ann Beattie
    • About Ann Beattie
    • Postmodernism and Its Children: The Case of Ann Beattie's ‘A Windy Day at the Reservoir’
    • Another You
    • All Her Lonely People
    • My Life, Starring Dara Falcon
    • Park City: New and Selected Stories
  • Beattie, Ann (Vol. 13)
    • Love's Resignation
    • Sufferers from Smug Despair
    • Daphne Merkin
    • Ann Hulbert
    • E. S. Duvall
  • Beattie, Ann (Vol. 8)
  • Further Reading