When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever
Her re-examination of the stories offers rewards for new readers as well as ardent fans ... Most affecting when its author describes how her relationship with her father has deepened since his death.
She aims to help us read Cheever’s best stories...she provides welcome context, clues to her father’s very particular genius ... As a writer and a daughter of a writer, she’s also exploring the wellsprings of creativity, which she does with openhearted elegance.
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Part memoir, part college seminar close-reading exercise...and all wry, twinkling delight ... Some of the pleasure of When All the Men Wore Hats is simple industry gossip.
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