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You are a good animal.

You are a very special breed.

For you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read

Hello and welcome to Bookworm

Today I'm in a tickled state

Because one of my favorite writers and favorite friends

Anne Beattie is with me

The occasion is the publication of her new

And Selected Stories Park City, from Knapp.

This book represents a calling from the books of short stories, distortions, secrets and

surprises, The Burning House, Where You'll Find Me and What Was mine. She's the author as well of the novels,

chilly scenes of winter, falling in place, love always picturing Will, another you and my life

starring Dara Falcon. And it's very good to see. Thank you for coming. Thanks. I wanted to begin

because, you know, I've spent years now mumbling abstract theories of how

your stories come together.

And while I know that I have to account for these things, I also know that you're the

most intuitive writer.

I know, and I wanted to ask you about that mixture of intuition and planning,

because when it comes to me, I see it as extremely patterned and designed.

But from your side, you've always expressed it as something that arrived from the brow untouched.

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