John Cheever
The New York Times
Artikler om John Cheever fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 22. juli 2010
OUR TOWNS; Decoding the 'Mad Men,' Ossining and Cheever Nexus
OSSINING, N.Y. Since, in one enervated corner of your brain, there are only two things going on -- the heat and ''Mad Men'' -- there was no better way to spend a steamy evening than visiting Ossining, home of Don and Betty Draper, the perfect and horrendously imperfect couple at the heart of the television show that is the opposite of that one...
How Cheever Really Saw Suburbia
JOHN CHEEVER was perhaps America's foremost chronicler of suburbia, and in his quirky short stories and novels, fictional suburbs like Shady Hill are often pictured as a place of deadening commuter routines, liquor-fueled get-togethers, loveless affairs and forays of conspicuous consumption. These writings suggest that he seemed to take a jaundiced...
BREVITY'S PULL; A Good Tale Isn't Hard to Find
To call an American writer a master of the short story can be taken at best as faint praise, or at worst as an insult, akin to singling out an ambitious novelist's journalism -- or, God forbid, criticism -- as her most notable accomplishment. The short story often looks like a minor or even vestigial literary form, redolent of M.F.A.-mill make-work...