More on: John Cheever

Jamie Quatro brings to her fiction a poet’s awareness of language, a historian’s sense of tradition and folklore, and a theologian’s concern with eternal questions. She is the author of I Want to Show You More (a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award and National…

Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch A FEW WEEKS AGO, I sat in my office reading Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” and came upon a line that sent me reeling back into my past: “Was there ever someone so young?” The question struck me…