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Back When Men Shared Secrets
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: July 1, 2010
No one’s been better than Ann Beattie at dropping a couple of brand names, book and movie titles or references to food and fashion to conjure a particular time and place and circumstance. The smart young denizens of the ’70s and ’80s who populate her best-known fiction tend to be clever, artsy types who, if they haven’t attended a notable university or law school, are taking night-school courses in poetry. They smoke joints, drink wine spritzers, eat ramen noodles, underline Russian novels and quote Wallace Stevens. They wear jackets from L. L. Bean, listen to Lou Reed, make mixtapes and know things like how to identify a Limoges plate without looking at the back.
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Published: July 1, 2010
No one’s been better than Ann Beattie at dropping a couple of brand names, book and movie titles or references to food and fashion to conjure a particular time and place and circumstance. The smart young denizens of the ’70s and ’80s who populate her best-known fiction tend to be clever, artsy types who, if they haven’t attended a notable university or law school, are taking night-school courses in poetry. They smoke joints, drink wine spritzers, eat ramen noodles, underline Russian novels and quote Wallace Stevens. They wear jackets from L. L. Bean, listen to Lou Reed, make mixtapes and know things like how to identify a Limoges plate without looking at the back.
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