john cheever

Short Stories: Journeys

Short Stories: Journeys

The protagonists in these short stories by Asako Serizawa, Nanjil Nadan, Goli Taraghi, Stephen King, and John Cheever are unsettled, vulnerable, and unmoored during their journeys.

The Drowning Pool: When Great Writers Are Drunks

The Drowning Pool: When Great Writers Are Drunks

Berryman, Carver, Cheever, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Williams; none could tend the flame of their talent with anything but liquor and devastation.

Keeping the Faith: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’

The Ice Storm: America Out in the Cold

Cheever: Straight No Chaser

Swimming Home with John Cheever