In “When All the Men Wore Hats,” Susan Cheever considers her father as a writer and a role model, recounting the stories ...

Cheever’s fiction would provide images that would become emblematic of midcentury American life: plush lawns, boozy parties, ...

In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964. By Walker Mimms His subjects included Hemingway, Fitzgerald ...

The story, which is included in a forthcoming Library of America collection, is called “Of Love: A Testimony.” It came to Dave Daley, the editor of FiveChapters.com, by way of Cheever’s son Ben, who ...

To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," click the arrow on the player ...

At a panel discussion for the New Yorker Festival featuring Emma Cline, Mary Gaitskill, and moderator Molly Fisher, Cline said John Cheever’s much-anthologized short story “The Swimmer,” which first ...

Twenty-seven years after his death, the life and work of writer John Cheever are once again in the spotlight. The award-winning author is the subject of a thick new biography — Cheever: A Life, by ...

John Cheever -- master of the short story, underrated novelist -- is having some sunlit moments. Posthumously, he was featured recently in Newsweek. The Library of America has just collected his works ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Twenty-seven years after his death, John Cheever is everywhere, due ...

John Cheever is about to get the full Richard Yates treatment. A fat biography of Cheever will be published next month and the author is Blake Bailey, author of the excellent "A Tragic Honesty: The ...