Perhaps…but those outside the print, or “smudgecore,” media should be warned that there is a passel of upcoming Cheever-related articles from a wide variety of publications. Willful ignorance may no longer be an option. Consider:
Popular Mechanics: “Cheever’s Backyard Distillery: Shocking New Blueprints”
W Magazine: “Mario Testino Shoots Cheever’s Yaddo Sex Dungeon”
Prison Living: “Sing-Sing Master Class: Cheever-ize Your Parole Board Letter Today!”
Good Housekeeping: “StainBusters: Remove Shame and/or Spunk from that Favorite Cardigan”
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John Cheever Achieves Total Media Domination
With Sunday’s New York Times review of Blake Bailey’s new biography of John Cheever, the reconsideration of John Cheever’s oeuvre has officially reached a crescendo.
In the last month alone, Bailey’s tome on Mr. Cheever’s life and work (which this publication has always ignored as an obsolete cultural oddity akin to Esperanto or penile-enlargement pumps) has been the subject of lengthy reviews in the New Yorker, Harpers, The Onion, Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly to name just a few.
Overkill?
Perhaps…but those outside the print, or “smudgecore,” media should be warned that there is a passel of upcoming Cheever-related articles from a wide variety of publications. Willful ignorance may no longer be an option. Consider:
Popular Mechanics: “Cheever’s Backyard Distillery: Shocking New Blueprints”
W Magazine: “Mario Testino Shoots Cheever’s Yaddo Sex Dungeon”
Prison Living: “Sing-Sing Master Class: Cheever-ize Your Parole Board Letter Today!”
Good Housekeeping: “StainBusters: Remove Shame and/or Spunk from that Favorite Cardigan”
American Journal of Psychiatry: “Freak! The Definitive John Cheever Case Study”
Falconer & Raptor Conservationist: “Cheever Reconsidered: Honestly, We Hoped For A Little More Falconing.”
Hot Rod: “Merritt Pkwy Showdown: John Cheever’s ‘55 Bel Air Hemi Vs. Rick Moody’s SS 454″
Juggs: “The Wapshot Chronicle”
Variety: “Cheever Pic Loses Dix: Straitharn, Franco Ankle Schnabel Oater”
inTouch Weekly: “Angie To Brad: ‘Finish Cheever Bio or I’m Leaving’”
Highlights For Children: “Cheever’s Earliest Work: Surprisingly Lucid, Insecure”
Fangoria: “Horror Show: Impotent Zombie Cheever Haunts Westchester Co.”
Cosmopolitan: “Dad’s Diary: Read It And Weep (Silently, Please)”
Tiger Beat: “Special Fold-Out Section: Rate Cheever’s Twinks!”
The New England Journal of Medicine: “FDA Approves Glaxo’s Anti-Cheever Fatigue Drug”
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