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4 days ago · John Cheever. From the writer’s perspective, audience is always an act of the imagination. ... poetry, photography, artwork and pieces on the author’s process ...
3 days ago · Either way, we can get lost, because Williams has a gift for marrying tension and humanity that calls to mind John Cheever or Shirley Jackson. That makes Beautiful Days a powerful, unsettling, genuinely thrilling collection, one that singles Williams out as a must-read voice in fiction. Zach Williams lets each of these 10 short stories unfold ...
2 days ago · Along the way, he drops a library’s worth of names, including James Baldwin, Jim Harrison, Christopher Hitchens, Anthony Bourdain, Samuel Beckett, Robert Christgau, John Cheever, Cyril Connolly, Seymour Krim (from whom he nicked the title of the book), Dr. Samuel Johnson, William Faulkner, Bruce Jay Friedman, Iris Murdoch, Jonathan Gold, Nora Ephron, Virginia Woolf, Denis Johnson, A.J ...
4 days ago · May 26, 2024 | 12:00am. The Italian coming-of-age drama ‘Parthenope,’ inspired by mythology, traces a beautiful young woman as she drifts through Naples and Capri. Gary Oldman appears briefly as...
1 day ago · Narcissus, you’ll recall, died staring at his own reflection shimmering in a pool of water. In “The Swimmer,” which was originally published in The New Yorker, Cheever used his trademark suburban setting to make observations about social status, wealth, and self-aggrandizement. As the story becomes increasingly surreal, readers ...
3 days ago · The Nobel Prize-winning author’s return marked a significant moment in post-Soviet Russian history. Death of Maurice Richard (2000) Maurice “Rocket” Richard, a legendary Canadian ice hockey player who led the Montreal Canadiens to eight Stanley Cup victories and was the first NHL player to score 500 goals, died at age 78 in 2000.
3 days ago · John Cheever Publicado el 27 May, 2024 por Miguel García-Castrillón La leyenda de que los personajes salen huyendo de sus autores, que toman drogas, cambian de sexo y se convierten en presidente implica que el escritor es un estúpido que no tiene ningún conocimiento ni dominio de su oficio.
