title: Knitting the Andy Warhol Bridge
author: Ann Curran
description: Ann Curran, president and CEO of Curran Ink, is author ofPlacement Test(Editors Choice, Main Street Rag) andMe First(RD Armstrongs Lummox Press). She has worked as a backroom bakery slave washing dirty pans and snitching icing, and as a conscientious journalist at thePittsburgh CatholicandPittsburgh Post-Gazette.A film reviewer of the love-to-hate school, she reported on new films and Pittsburgh Public Theater plays for theMarket Squaretabloid and covered the International Poetry Forum for thePittsburgh Press, providing advancefeatures and reviews of performances.She wrote features for half a dozenPittsburgh Magazineeditors. She also taught English at Duquesne University, her alma, as a graduate assistant, which placed her well below an adjunct professor. She learned grammar teaching remedial English at the Community College of Allegheny County, where she found her favorite, obscene example of passive voice written on a wall on her way to class to teach that chicken way of talking. For a couple of decades, she edited the prize-winning quarterlyCarnegie Mellon Magazineat Carnegie Mellon University,while her boss, Don Hale, argued with assorted presidents about why they should not fire her. Otherwise, she plays tennis in four seasons, Shanghai Rum and 500 with cocoa bean fanatics, works out at the Y, does the laundry, sort of cooks, cleans the toilets and performs other poetic chores. Some how she managed to marry a kind, loving manEd Wintermantel. They raised the most thoughtful, sweetest daughter imaginableCristin Francis Curran Wintermantel. Ann sings at St. Mary of the Mount Church when the choir is in active voice and serves on the Parish Pastoral Council.
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  #### The Four Million
  
  
  TOBIN'S PALM
  
  THE GIFT OF THE MAGI
  
  A COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFE
  
  BETWEEN ROUNDS
  
  THE SKYLIGHT ROOM
  
  A SERVICE OF LOVE
  
  THE COMING-OUT OF MAGGIE
  
  MAN ABOUT TOWN
  
  THE COP AND THE ANTHEM
  
  AN ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE
  
  MEMOIRS OF A YELLOW DOG
  
  [THE LOVE-PHILTRE OF IKEY
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  [MAMMON AND THE ARCHER](The%20Four%20Million_split_001.html#filepos149768)
  
  [SPRINGTIME A LA CARTE](The%20Four%20Million_split_001.html#filepos163152)
  
  [THE GREEN DOOR](The%20Four%20Million_split_001.html#filepos176123)
  
  [FROM THE CABBY'S SEAT](The%20Four%20Million_split_001.html#filepos192065)
  
  [AN UNFINISHED STORY](The%20Four%20Million_split_001.html#filepos202188)
  
  [THE CALIPH, CUPID AND THE
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  [SISTERS OF THE GOLDEN
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  [THE ROMANCE OF A BUSY
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