docnadOct 20, 2024
Title page to John Cheever's The National Pastime, Limited Edition https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2024/10/john-cheever-limited-edition-of.html #JohnCheever #Baseball #TheNewYorker
John Cheever's The National Pastime, Limited Edition

Understanding the world one cartoon at a time. And other high culture. New Yorker artists are royalty here.

docnadOct 13, 2024
Back cover illustration by Vance Gerry
John Cheever's The National Pastime, Limited Edition https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2024/10/john-cheever-limited-edition-of.html #VanceGerry #JohnCheever #Baseball
John Cheever's The National Pastime, Limited Edition

Understanding the world one cartoon at a time. And other high culture. New Yorker artists are royalty here.

docnadOct 13, 2024
John Cheever's The National Pastime, Limited Edition https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2024/10/john-cheever-limited-edition-of.html #Baseball #JohnCheever
John Cheever's The National Pastime, Limited Edition

Understanding the world one cartoon at a time. And other high culture. New Yorker artists are royalty here.

Culture | The Guardian USAug 8, 2024
Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/08/strange-relations-by-ralf-webb-review-brave-new-queer-world #TennesseeWilliams #CarsonMcCullers #Historybooks #JamesBaldwin #LGBTQ+rights #JohnCheever #Culture #Books
Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world

A richly rewarding account of how four literary giants created an erotic revolution in post-war American culture

The Guardian
Culture | The Guardian USJul 30, 2024
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/30/strange-relations-masculinity-sexuality-and-art-in-mid-century-america-by-ralf-webb-review-tennessee-williams-john-cheever-carson-mccullers-james-baldwin #Autobiographyandmemoir #Literarycriticism #TennesseeWilliams #CarsonMcCullers #JamesBaldwin #JohnCheever #Culture #Books
Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

The Guardian
rommyMar 10, 2024
#currentlyreading #johncheever #literature
Rob ChristopherNov 17, 2023

3 things about Frank Perry’s THE SWIMMER [1968]

1. “Why can’t we travel more?”
“What for? We’ve got everything we want right here.”
2. The man whispers something to Joan.
3. As the afternoon progresses he gets colder and colder.

#3things #burtlancaster #frankperry #johncheever #movies #suburbia #cinema #cinemastodon

Horacio Lobos LunaOct 3, 2023

No es correcto leer correspondencia ajena, pero encontré este libro de John Cheever y me preparo para empezar a leerlo... Me hubiera gustado tener la edición en el idioma original./ It's not nice to read other people's mail, but... 🤷‍♂️ 🤤

#johncheever #cartas #escritor #libro #lectura #letters #writer #book #reading

Roger GathmannDec 23, 2022
I re-read the #JohnCheever story, "the enormous radio", yesterday. It was written, I believe, in the early 50s. It is about a big radio that somehow has the property of transmitting the conversations of people in an apartment building. The woman who listens to it becomes transfixed. She hates it, and listens to it. And I thought: #JohnCheever predicted #Twitter!
Let's go to the 3DBB.Nov 14, 2022
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