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...rejected, as were a few other attempts. But the summer after Updike’s graduation, preparing to study drawing at Oxford on a Knox fellowship in the fall, he wrote a short story in response to a piece by John Cheever that he had read. The New Yorker accepted it and, a bit later, bought a slightly revised version of his ex-basketball-player story, now titled “Ace in the Hole...
...hatchets and skeletons and whatever else would look prettier covered by a manicured lawn or a bluestone patio or a Har-Tru tennis court. Of course, Lee isn't the first to point out that the suburbs hide uncharted depths of misery and discontentment--Updike, Rick Moody and John Cheever, among many others, have been here before. But Lee's portrait feels somehow more up-to-date than anything else out there, complete with postboom McMansions that take up all but a fringe of their .47-acre lots. Never mind that Jerry, a landscaping contractor, thinks in better prose than...
...magazine?s roster of contributors was as distinguished as any in English-language journalism. Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever, John Updike, Irwin Shaw, William Styron, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and such cartoonists as Dedini, Barsotti, Kliban: they could be the front table at a New Yorker banquet. Skeptics suspected that Hefner got the second-best from the best, or work the New Yorker had rejected, and that Playboy settled for B material from the A team in order to appropriate their literary celebrity. Some folks in publishing had a dismissive term for Playboy fiction: ?shit from names...
...story for the Harvard women’s team was more disappointing, as only one Crimson runner placed in the top 10 overall. Princeton took home the Cheever Memorial Trophy, led by Emily Kroshus, who finished...
...treading on familiar ground. Still, we never forget that Ramchandra and Malati are in Nepal, not New Bedford. Their first fumbling attempt at a tryst, in a city park, is interrupted by a horde of rampaging monkeys. Not the kind of thing that happens to adulterers in John Cheever's work...