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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subjects he considered off limits. Some seemed frivolous: "All parts for Marlon Brando." Others contained a mix of irony and rue. The author would shy away from explicit scenes of sexual commerce: "How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives as if -- jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts -- we were describing the changing of a flat tire?" He would disdain alcoholics: "Out they go, male and female, all the lushes; they throw so little true light on the way we live." And homosexuals were to have no place in his pages: "Isn't it time that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack, Wrench, Hubcap, and Nuts: The intimate journals of John Cheever are full of conflicts about marriage, writing, drinking and sex | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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