{"id":1147,"date":"2009-02-16T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/new-lost-story-by-john-cheever.html"},"modified":"2009-02-16T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:44:00","slug":"new-lost-story-by-john-cheever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/new-lost-story-by-john-cheever.html","title":{"rendered":"New &quot;Lost&quot; Story by John Cheever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SZnSufsHHnI\/AAAAAAAAAGQ\/2Eg0V_jNhM8\/s1600-h\/cheever.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SZnSufsHHnI\/AAAAAAAAAGQ\/2Eg0V_jNhM8\/s320\/cheever.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>I&#8217;m pleased to direct my distinguished readers&#8217; attention to a story only recently unearthed called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivechapters.com\/\">Of Love: A Testimony<\/a>.&#8221; the story was part of cheever&#8217;s first story collection, from 1943,fell out of print for decades, \u00a0and it&#8217;s now up on the site fivechapters.com, which is typically dedicated to work of contemporary authors.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(this post is also the latest in my &#8220;WASP writers of the 20th c&#8221; series. good scotch and unseasoned food will be served.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>cheever watchers should know that blake bailey, author of &#8220;a tragic honesty,&#8221; the acclaimed richard yates&#8217; biography, will soon publish is cheever bio, and the library of america will put out everything the bard of westchester ever wrote, edited by bailey.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i cant think of too many writers who&#8217;ve given me more reading pleasure than cheever. discovered him not in college or grad school, where he is very rarely taught, but while living in a WASP milieu in connecticut &#8212; it would be a commonplace to say that his work transcends that setting. what i most admire about cheever&#8217;s work is his control, his insistence on making every sentence nearly perfect and elegant, and his ability to bring things to a persuasive emotional pitch. simply unbelievable writer &#8212; the art tatum or teddy wilson of the short story.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>curious what my readers thing of this new (old) one.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exnovo\/155775770\/\">25<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to direct my distinguished readers&#8217; attention to a story only recently unearthed called &#8220;Of Love: A Testimony.&#8221; the story was part of cheever&#8217;s first story collection, from 1943,fell out of print for decades, \u00a0and it&#8217;s now up on the site fivechapters.com, which is typically dedicated to work of contemporary authors. (this post is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[545,544,101],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cheever","7":"category-fivechapters","8":"category-short-story","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}