Today is, Allen Gurganus reminds us, John Cheever's 100th birthday. In celebration, here's the last couple of graphs from his story The Lowboy, which is about how some people turn life into a battle over stupid possessions. No one (in my experience) has ever dramatized this all-too-common meanness so eloquently: At some point — perhapsContinue reading “Cheever: Life is for some an exquisite privilege”
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Kit Stolz 