Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...

Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the emotional...

The parents of Madeleine McCann on Thursday released an artist's impression of the man they believe abducted their daughter during a family vacation in Portugal.The sketches depict a man with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a brown or maroon top and beige trousers walking with a...

Paramount Pictures will no longer be showing Tom Cruise any more money.  The feature film organization and the Jerry Maguire star are officially separating in an unamicable split that the studio says is a result of Cruise’s off-screen behavior. This includes his crazy couch conduct...

In the mood for a good mystery? How about 12 of them? Organizers for the first International Mystery Writers' Festival will showcase 12 works June 12-17 in Owensboro. Some of the genre's key players, Ira Levin, Sue Grafton and Angela...

People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching "Spider-Man 3" in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format.Likewise, people with Blu-ray players won't be...