I conducted a long series of structured intensive research interviews with John Cheever, the author of five novels, more than 300 stories, and winner of both the National Book Award for The Wapshot ...
THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLE (307 pp.)—John Cheever—Harper ($3.50). This is a brilliantly written first novel, vastly (and sometimes sadly) amusing. So far, Author John Cheever, 44, has been content for a ...
Highbrow Magazine: A Daughter Makes the Case for John Cheever in ‘When All the Men Wore Hats’
A Daughter Makes the Case for John Cheever in ‘When All the Men Wore Hats’
BULLET PARK by John Cheever. 241 pages. Knopf. $5.95. After the final melodramatic act of John Cheever’s new novel—in which a boy barely escapes being turned into a gasoline-soaked torch on the altar ...
Wall Street Journal: ‘When All the Men Wore Hats’ Review: John Cheever’s Little Worlds
Where do a writer’s stories come from? For Susan Cheever, the question is a longtime preoccupation. She’s the eldest child of John Cheever, the 20th-century literary titan whose short-story ...
The New York Times: She’s John Cheever’s Daughter, Except When It Comes to Keeping Secrets
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Twenty-seven years after his death, John Cheever is everywhere, due ...
America Magazine: For John Cheever, ‘mere facts’ had nothing on a good story
John Cheever in front a Metro North Railroad car not unlike that many of his characters rode to work. (Wikimedia Commons) Upon his death in 1982, Cheever was called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for ...