Where do a writer’s stories come from? For Susan Cheever, the question is a longtime preoccupation. She’s the eldest child of John Cheever, the 20th-century literary titan whose short-story ...
The land of John Cheever lies in the suburbs of another time. It's a world of well-scrubbed children skipping on manicured lawns. The men in their Brooks Brothers suits catch commuter trains and make ...
John Cheever in front a Metro North Railroad car not unlike that many of his characters rode to work. (Wikimedia Commons) Upon his death in 1982, Cheever was called “the Chekhov of the suburbs” for ...