Mrs. Cheever casually took care to point out that her husband [John Cheever] wrote only in the mornings because by the afternoon he was often drunk on gin.
“In those days, people did drink ever so much more than they do now,” Mrs. Cheever said with a chuckle. “It sounds shocking now, but it was not shocking then.”
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:11PM
BREAKING NEWS: John Cheever not remotely like a character in a John Cheever story, actually….
From “How Cheever Really Felt About Living in Suburbia,” published in today’s Times: [His] writings suggest that he seemed to take a jaundiced view of so manicured and lovely a setting. But there is evidence in a new biography of……