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...For writer James Baldwin, that was Maurice, the “elegant, middle-aged Frenchman with patrician manners” who presided over Restaurant Tolentini in Nice, where a fish tank lined one wall and the napkins came...
...And there are those who don’t, who follow the example set by John Cheever, who admitted that “a great many of my stories were written in boxer shorts”....
...Opinions about television are ten a penny, and you can get them anywhere; if it’s Moore’s opinion I’d rather hear it on John Cheever or Joyce Carol Oates or Dawn Powell....
...Xian Tong Enterprises, a US-based technology company, has 6.94 per cent, the Chicago Stock Exchange Management team 0.88 per cent and brokerage Cheevers & Co 0.18 per cent....
...Matthew Garrahan is the FT’s global media editor Illustration by James Ferguson...
...All That Is, by James Salter, Picador, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95, 304 pages Collected Stories, by James Salter with an introduction by John Banville, Picador, RRP£18.99, 256 pages Morning....
...For Seating Arrangements it was John Updike and John Cheever. Generally, it has been Jeffrey Eugenides, Michael Chabon: their style doesn’t get in the way of the story....
...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....
...Like James, Cheever was a guilty and tormented homosexual, with many secrets....
...James Lovegrove is author of ‘The Age of Ra’ (Solaris)...
...And, although we may cherish the stories of writers of the past - from Chekhov to Somerset Maugham, Kipling to Hemingway, James Joyce to Dorothy Parker - we pay more attention to “big” books by living writers...
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