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MacShane's research included conversations with O'Hara's brothers, sisters, wives and more distant relatives. He lists hundreds of contacts in the acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
This is true for this collection's best stories. They are by masters of the form, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, John Updike and Saul Bellow, all of whom will undoubtedly be represented when the O. Henry Awards publishes The Prize Stories of the Century...
Shawn laments the magazine's current scarcity of humor and fiction, which he sees as symptomatic of the times: "The problem is to find enough that fits our standards." Fiction can range widely from I.B. Singer's shtetl in Poland to the adulterous suburbia of John Cheever. But there is a recognizable New Yorker kind of story. It usually involves a middle-class woman who registers a sad little recognition after some incident in which not very much happened...
...Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever: elegies by a master of the short form...
What is wrong with this picture? Not quite enough to work up a lather over Salley's alleged miseries. Because Salley tells her own story, it is impossible to say how seriously Cheever wants her to be taken. The only real point of suspense in the book is a foregone conclusion: when the right job comes along, Salley gets...