A total master of the short story, Beattie first gained recognition in the 70s with C and . She scathingly yet subtly shredded on yuppies way before the rest of America blamed them for everything. Now all of these fiction-blog kids call her a key progenitor of “Kmart realism.” That seems kind of goofy. But what we are sure of is that Ann Beattie is a genius and we flipped out when she agreed to give us a story. Story read by: Andrew WK, musician, nightclub impresario, and party laureate of the United States/Earth.
house Bomb like Whuddafuuuuuck was twenty-year-old had © Ann Beattie, 2008