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“I start with a physical feeling. I start with a visual image.” On Late Night With Seth Meyers, Ann Beattie speaks about her writing process, the differences between writing a novel and a short story, and how she came up with the title for her most recent novel, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck (Viking, 2019).
Ann Beattie, who is featured in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads from her new book, The State We're In: Maine Stories (Scribner, 2015), and talks about her experiences in writing and reading fiction, and working with editors. For more Beattie, listen to the latest episode of Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast.
The New York Times Book Review published online yesterday its 10 Best Books of 2010. In this video, fiction writer Ann Beattie, whose collection The New Yorker Stories was included on that list, discusses the early days of her career and the creative process of writing short stories.
