RPCV Book on Ann Beattie's Book Shelf
That must be the definition of the inequality of fame. Anne Beattie is on my shelf. But I'm not on…
Reading the current issue of The New York Review of Books I spotted a long piece by Meghan O’Rourke on the new collection The New Yorker Stories by Ann Beattie. There was a photo of Ann in front of a shelf of books taken by Dominique Nabokov and it is clearly (by its disorganized self) a home book shelf.
Scanning it closely to see what she might be reading, I spotted Peter Hessler’s (China 1996-98) latest book, Country Driving. It is on a shelf of random books, with only a few title readable, Green Metropolis by David Owen; Hatred of Capitalism by Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer; and Michael Lewis’ The Big Short.
There might have been other RPCV writers on Ann’s shelf, but lookikng closely, I couldn’t find any of my books. Oh, well!
That must be the definition of the inequality of fame. Anne Beattie is on my shelf. But I’m not on hers. I think John Berger said something like that.