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The temptation is always to trot out somebody like John Cheever or Paul Theroux. Both of whom are terrific, by the way — but I can't help going back to the guy that kept me sane in high school, and that's Stephen King.
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25 Points: American Psycho
to get outside for a minute, but I ended up walking around the bookstore for an hour. I first grabbed Bret Easton Ellis’s and a John Cheever story collection, then decided I didn’t want the Cheever but accidentally put the Ellis back instead. In retrospect, from HTML Giant Read more »
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A Great American Biography
It's easy to imagine the skepticism that greeted Blake Bailey when he decided that, after writing acclaimed biographies of John Cheever and Richard Yates, he would next take up—Charles Jackson. "Who?" must have been the main response. Jackson, who committed from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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Blake Bailey's 'Farther and Wilder', a life that gets a little tedious
our attention in 2009 with his excellent "Cheever: A Life," the harrowing account of the alcoholic, bisexual novelist John Cheever. Preceding it was "A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates," another writer who was no stranger to the bottle. His from Cleveland.com Read more »
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This weekend, writers scale a 'Mountain of Words'
Capote could only write while horizontal, he said, with a cigarette and coffee nearby (or booze). John Cheever wrote best in his underwear. Legend has it that Ashevilles own Thomas Wolfe wrote leaning against a refrigerator with the paper on top because he from The Asheville Citizen-Times Read more »
