john cheever
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Rumpus Video Premiere & Interview with Golden Suits
I think the part that gets me most excited is being inspired for a song by something that’s outside of music.
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Allan Gurganus on John Cheever
Over at The New York Review of Books, writer Allan Gurganus gives us a peek into his relationship with John Cheever while Gurganus was but a mere student in his twenties, and Cheever was The John Cheever, living in Iowa,…
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Growing Out of It
A descendant of Cheever, Stuart Nadler traces evolving relationships with delicate, precise prose in his debut short story collection, The Book of Life.
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THE LONELY VOICE #12: Cheever in Albania Or The Lonely Voice Hates Travel Writing
There are few things more riveting than watching people gossip in a language you don’t understand.
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Larry Fahey: The Last Book I Loved, Bullet Park
I should say at the outset that while Bullet Park is a good book, and in my opinion a great book, it is not a sound book. Cheever is rightly (though myopically) criticized for never having really solved the novel,…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s fall! The air is crisp, the leaves are falling, and I can’t seem to leave my house.
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Television, Starring John Cheever and John Updike
This has been a week of exhuming dead writers. First the hallelujahs for the news of David Foster Wallace’s forthcoming unfinished novel, now a newly unburied video of Cheever and Updike being interviewed by Dick Cavett in 1981. Deliciously, the…