The Field

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