Waiting on Wednesday: Mrs. Nixon by Ann Beattie
Welcome to Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine , to highlight an upcoming release you cannot wait to read. It should come as no surprise to frequent readers that I'm a huge fan of fiction about real people. American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld is my all-time favorite novel , and earlier this year Monica Ali wowed me with her re-imagining of Princess Diana in Untold Story . When I sat down Monday morning with my coffee to start this week's issue of The New Yorker (bless you, Kindle subscriptions !), I began with the excerpt from Ann Beattie's forthcoming book, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life . It's being described as not-quite fiction and not-quite non-fiction, and I am all parts excited for its publication! The excerpt in The New Yorker was both wonderful and perplexing. Beattie's writing, which I've read sporadically over the years when her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker , is exquisite. I highlighted n...