7. The Distractions of John Cheever

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviation ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Introduction 1
7. Contributos 1
8. I. Magazine and Marketplace
9. 1. The New Yorker, the Middlebrow, and the Periodical Marketplace in 1925 17
10. 2. ‘We Stand Corrected’: New Yorker Fact-checking and the Business of American Accuracy 36
11. 3. Marianne Moore and the Hidden Persuaders 58
12. II Self-Fashioning
13. 4. Philip Roth’s Kinds of Writing 81
14. 5. Spark’s Proofs 99
15. 6. Sylvia Plath and ‘The Blessed Glossy New Yorker’ 118
16. 7. The Distractions of John Cheever 137
17. III Lightness and Gravity
18. 8. Portrait of the Rabbit as a Young Beau: John Updike, New Yorker Humorist 161
19. 9. Sports at The New Yorker 188
20. 10. The New Yorker Life of Hannah Arendt’s Mind 209
21. 11. On Blustering: Dwight Macdonald, Modernism and The New Yorker 228
22. Index 249