Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live. |
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. |
The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. |
When I first read his work, I almost thought it was some kind of parody by a famous white writer, because he takes so many things from me and other writers. |