Blogs about: John Cheever

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It Would Only Make a Geek's Day2 comments

kirbyann wrote 20 hours ago: Someone found my blog today by googling “unreliable narrator, cheever”. They were propbr … more »

Tags: writing, Random, Life, Thoughts, Happy, English, The Swimmer, Unreliable narrator, made day

Against Beach Reading

ohkrapp wrote 4 days ago: People are self-conscious about what they read. Not everyone, of course, as you might have noticed … more »

Tags: autodidact, Books, Aesthetics, Summer Reading List, Beach Reading, standard of taste, Literary criticism, David Denby, hemginway

In Memory: Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)2 comments

sonnypi67 wrote 1 month ago: Listening to a rerun of an interview with Pollack by Terry Gross. I never usually get to worked up a … more »

Tags: Celebrity, Movies, Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack

Art is the triumph over chaos.

karynmannix wrote 2 months ago: John Cheever John Cheever (May 27, 1912–June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story wr … more »

Tags: Artist Quote, Quote Of The Day, Novelist

The Swimmer Redux16 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 3 months ago: Fingers of frigid air slithered through the kitchen window, night and autumn coming on. Esme Wester … more »

Tags: Tales With A Literary Twist, Writers, writing, Short Stories, Short Fiction, flash fiction, The Swimmer

Euphoria #1413 comments

dcairns wrote 6 months ago: Edinburgh College of Art graduate, my contemporary, Noo Yawk cartoonist and regular reader Simon Fra … more »

Tags: film, Literature, Farnk Perry, The Swimmer, Burt Lancaster, John Frankenheimer, Simon Fraser, David Quaid, Pretty Poison

Being Stephen Fry

adferoafferro wrote 9 months ago: No detailed idea what it must really be like: he has started writing on Stephen Fry, so we are sure … more »

Tags: Celebrity, Fame!, Fiction, Irony, navel gazing, Non-Fiction, writing

Saturday Morning2 comments

Photo Buffet wrote 12 months ago: It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. - … more »

Tags: 100mm, art and photography, Bonnie Bruno, canon, Famous Quotes, Flora, Life, Photoblog, summer

PRACTICE - Holding My Breath - 10min7 comments

QuoinMonkey wrote 1 year ago: The center of a Blow Pop. That’s what it’s like to hold my breath. The uneaten half of a … more »

Tags: Personal, Life, writing, Practice, Writers, Money, Authors, Work, Random

Pulitzer Week - What Would Joseph Think?5 comments

QuoinMonkey wrote 1 year ago: I saw a post early this week by Janice Harayda at One Minute Book Reviews that reminded me it is Pu … more »

Tags: Politics, writing, Books, Writers, Authors, Random, Fiction, 25 Things, Reading

Swimming to Acapulco4 comments

Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 years ago: 3:45 on a mild Thursday afternoon and Acapulco was beckoning me (the chain restaurant, not the actua … more »

Tags: L.A. Stories, Short Stories, Writers, writing, Los Angeles, Glendale, Acapulco Cantina, Los Angeles wrters, The Swimmer


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