Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

If you'd like to read a couple of compelling articles about the Pulitzer prize winning author, John Cheever, take a look at the following recent pieces which are online at the NY Times website:

A book review of John Cheever's biography, _Cheever A Life_ (by Blake Bailey) at: ====>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/boo...

and

another article about John Cheever, at: ====>
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/mag...

Excerpts:
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"And here comes Blake Bailey’s stunningly detailed biography, exploring step by stumbling step the crooked path that Cheever followed, disclosing the addicted urges and bawling self-pity (“What did I ever do to deserve this”) to which he submitted himself and those within his household."

"WHEN JOHN CHEEVER DIED in June 1982, his literary reputation seemed as secure as literary reputations get. You would have bought shares in it if you speculated in such things. He was a widely acknowledged master of the short story, in a league with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Updike, who said that Cheever wrote “as if with the quill from the wing of an angel.” His collected stories, which came out in 1978, were on the best-seller list — a place where story collections very seldom turn up — for months and went on to win both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His 1977 novel, “Falconer,” even climbed to No. 1 on the list and clung there for a while..."
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The Goodreads description gives a good summary of what the biography includes. See: ====>
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39...

Have you ever read any of John Cheever's work? I haven't, but these articles certainly spur my curiousity.

No wonder I can't finish the books I'm reading. I'm too busy reading THIS stuff! :)

READ SAMPLE OF THIS BOOK HERE:
_CHEEVER - A LIFE_ :
http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader...
(The first 5 chapters are in the sample.)

After much searching online for a video of John Cheever being interviewed, I finally found one. The video shows Dick Cavett interviewing both John Cheever and John Updike in 1981 (the year before Cheever died). (Updike died in 2009.) The video can be seen at the link below:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/...
The title of the page is: "A Last Look at Updike and Cheever".