Consider me a latter-day re-convert to Ann Beattie. I first read Beattie when I was newly out of college. Her 1976 debut novel, “Chilly Scenes of Winter,” was a touchstone book. Still, for all the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he attended Johnson C. Smith University as a music business student in the late 1970s, Anthony Lindsey regularly walked a ...

Ted Beattie was president and CEO of the Shedd Aquarium for 22 years, a period of significant change that saw the opening of six permanent exhibits, including the addition of Wild Reef, and the ...

“Sorry if you can hear the washing machine in the background,” is not a classic opening line for an athlete’s retirement announcement, but it’s the one Jen Beattie has chosen. It’s a decision that’s ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “How can this person be one to lead any peace-building? It just seems absurd.” In ...

“The State We’re In,” Ann Beattie’s ninth book of short fiction, is a work of double meanings, beginning with that title: The 15 stories here take place in Maine, where the author spends part of each ...

“Sorry if you can hear the washing machine in the background,” is not a classic opening line for an athlete’s retirement announcement, but it’s the one Jen Beattie has chosen. In both laundry and life ...