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“I’ve never heard anything like that. The last line comes out of nowhere.”

This line from a conversation between a seventy-seven year-old poet and an IRS agent about a poem by James Wright in the short story “Yancey” is vintage Ann Beattie: it’s an astute comment in an unusual situation by characters who … Continue reading

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