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May 15, 2024 · Today, we recommend: “The Enormous Radio” by John Cheever. Cheever is famous for his slanted literature of suburbia and the people who grill there, less gimlet-eyed than gimlet-distorted; but his best stories are less documentarian and more an exercise in chipping off varnish, almost casually, almost like you’re sitting there minding your ...
May 14, 2024 · Often ranked with Anton Chekhov and John Cheever, ... By the early ’70s, she had left her husband, later observing she was not “prepared to be a submissive wife.” ...
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May 14, 2024 · Victor and his wife choose the mansion and the old widow over their daughter. Later in the story, they wonder why she isn't talking to them. For a few years, their lives are great. Victor's wife sews. Victor runs the charity parties. Mrs. Brownlee often praises them. She's certain that her daughter will love them even if her son hates them.
May 9, 2024 · John Cheever (1912-1982) Steve feels that in our own century, things have changed for the American short story and there’s no going back to Cheever’s mode. After Raymond Carver, it would be hard to embrace the proliferation (sometimes dizzying, sometimes delightful) of solid details that Cheever deploys.
5 days ago · Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world's most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope ...
May 19, 2024 · Paolo Sorrentino talks directing Gary Oldman as U.S. Writer John Cheever in 'Parthenope' which he calls his first 'feminine epic.'.
May 14, 2024 · World. Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dies at 92. The Canadian literary giant became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors, often ranked...
