When I was a young poet in New York City, I taught a poetry class once a week at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. That solo writing workshop grew into a program that brought workshops ...

John Cheever -- master of the short story, underrated novelist -- is having some sunlit moments. Posthumously, he was featured recently in Newsweek. The Library of America has just collected his works ...

The feud between Cheever and the Andretti family dates back to 1992, when Mario Andretti crashed into Cheever at Long Beach. It resumed in April, when the Andretti's verbally trashed Cheever after an ...

John Cheever's "The Swimmer" is one of the great short stories of the 20th century. It's getting some attention this weekend because the Burt Lancaster movie is playing at the Northwest Film Center.

That’s the gist of Blake Bailey’s impressive new biography of author John Cheever. “Cheever: A Life” is finely written, admirably paced — and all too informative. It depicts a homophobe irresistibly ...

In 1960, when Susan Cheever was – in her words – “a miserable seventeen-year-old junior with failing grades,” poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962) did a reading at her prep school. Afterward, she, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Twenty-seven years after his death, John Cheever is everywhere, due ...

For today only, as part of their “[Eighty-five from the Archive](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/eighty-five-from-the-archive/)” series, the Back ...

When Susan Cheever was a high school sophomore, E.E. Cummings came to her school for a reading. Her father, novelist John Cheever, was friendly with Cummings and a great admirer of the poet, so the ...

Blake Bailey is best known for his prize-winning biographies of great writers who were also destructive — and not just self-destructive — people. His books on John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Cheever, an accomplished author and poet best known as the enduring spouse and widow of John Cheever, has ...

Hardly a week goes by without drivers in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series trading verbal jabs after rubbing fenders on the track, and even some of their girlfriends have gotten into the act lately. But ...