Blogs about: John Cheever
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Bites: The Real Cheever, Jules Verne Google, Bad Reviews, Dead Rabbis Writing Letters and More
Get to know the real John Cheever. (Left, with John Updike) Google goes steampunk for the birthday of Jules Verne. Emily St. John Mandel discusses bad reviews. A dead rabbi writes a letter to a litera… more →
Vol. 1 Brooklyn
Bullet Park
wrote 2 days ago: There comes a stage when you do it. You move to the suburbs. You’re no longer cool, you’ … more →
Essential Reading: The In-flight Edition
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wrote 1 week ago: Okay, I interrupt the regular monthly programming of this feature for a special edition of Essential … more →
Old School Sundays: John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
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wrote 3 weeks ago: John Cheever is best known for his suffocating depictions of post-war suburban life. For this, I’ve … more →
Favorite Collections of Collections (of Stories)
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wrote 1 month ago: Near 700 pages, The Stories of John Cheever is the latest collection of story collections I have acq … more →
It's been a while . . .
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wrote 1 month ago: Well, I’ve been lagging somewhat in the blogging department. Bookwork has been keeping me busy … more →
Word Mystery: girdle / faja / gaine
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wrote 1 month ago: Word Mysteries are where words in languages that I know don’t correspond to each other at all … more →
Short Story Sunday- Wait, Scratch That, Go Watch TV
wrote 1 month ago: It’s the most wonderful day of the year, Mad Men Sunday. For the past two or three years, it … more →
Beautiful People: Jowita Bydlowska
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wrote 1 month ago: Fast forward to 1:15 “I’ll never understand it. You’re so bright, charming and beautiful. I think to … more →
The Swimmer
wrote 1 month ago: This nonfiction short, “Swimming to Acapulco”, was written in April 2006, when I was liv … more →
The Wapshot Scandal by John Cheever
wrote 1 month ago: After reading The Wapshot Chronicle on my first list of 100, I was so impressed, I made certain I wo … more →
63. 'Working The Room,' Geoff Dyer...
wrote 1 month ago: ‘Working The Room,’ Geoff Dyer Once again breaking my ‘one author per blog entry u … more →
Letters Galore by Jim McKeown
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wrote 2 months ago: Way back in 1976, someone, whom I have long ago forgotten, gave me a copy of The Letters of William … more →
in the company of our kind
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wrote 2 months ago: Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb people used to worry about its going off and killi … more →
John Cheever, on the rest of us "doctors"
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wrote 2 months ago: Didn’t think too much of us, apparently, inasmuch as he might have shared the beliefs of his p … more →
Who Nose you Best?
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wrote 2 months ago: Oh dear. What an awful, terrible-pun title. But nevermind.. Today I’m going to give you the de … more →
An Appreciation of Blake Bailey.
wrote 2 months ago: Blake Bailey by Dick Loftin. Blake Bailey has quickly become one of my favorite writers. He has writ … more →
John Cheever: The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, a Writer's Tale
wrote 2 months ago: Beneath the 1080p resolution of its millions of literal pixels glazed into the surface of this wizar … more →
Experience Required: The Polar Explorer’s Guide to Writing a Novel
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wrote 3 months ago: by Joseph M. Schuster 1. In 1911, two European expeditions—one English and one Norwegian—landed on A … more →
Writing Wednesday: Establishing Characters
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wrote 3 months ago: Last month I wrote about reader expectations and how failing to meet such expectations can result in … more →
