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...For all Bailey’s credentials — he has written well-received biographies of John Cheever, Richard Yates and Charles Jackson — his latest book has been justly criticised for its partiality, especially in relation...
...I felt like the protagonist in the John Cheever short story “The Swimmer”, using this patchwork of features as stepping stones....
...From mint juleps in The Great Gatsby (1925) to gin in John Cheever’s marvellously unsettling short story “The Swimmer” (1964), alcohol sloshes through literature, sometimes intoxicating and sometimes just...
...Dickens’s bicentenary is a bigger occasion in the US than even the centenary of John Cheever (1912), the country’s great short-story writer....
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