John Cheever, shown above in 1975, enjoyed a revival in the late 1970s when The Stories Of John Cheever won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award.
In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories behind his celebrated stories. By Alexandra Jacobs It’s not quite #MeToo, but a ...
An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. Toward the end of his life John Cheever was festooned in honors. In 1977, his novel ...
On Home Before Dark : A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter, by Susan Cheever. But I was also angered by the piece. There was, first of all, the question of propriety. I am aware of how ...
To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," click the arrow on the player ...
John Cheever wrote more than 300 short stories and five novels. Known primarily as a modern master of the short story, he composed fantasies and satirical social commentaries about the people and life ...
(See Cover) My mind is bent to tell of bodies changed into new forms. Ye gods, for you yourselves have wrought the changes, breathe on these my undertakings, and bring down my song in unbroken strains ...
In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964. By Walker Mimms His subjects included Hemingway, Fitzgerald ...