Scribner via AP“The Accomplished Guest” by Ann Beattie By Howard Norman, Special to The Washington Post With “The Accomplished Guest,” Ann Beattie yet again reveals herself as one of literature’s most liberating figures. Book after book, her writing affirms a beguiling originality. In her new collection of 13 stories, whose locales vary from Key West to Virginia and Maine, the stark indignities of aging, friends reuniting, loneliness and travel are common threads.