A selective list of online literary criticism for John Cheever, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Web Pages
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Short and accessible essay on John Cheever as a classic American author, by Neil Baldwin for the National Book Foundation
A review of Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey. Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. NY Times, 26 March 2009.
Interview with John Cheever from the Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 62
The Modest and Charitable Humanism of John Cheever, by Ralph C. Wood, at religion-online.org
Uncollecting Cheever: The Family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers, by Anita Miller in the NY Times Book Review, 1998
Chabon, Michael. Brief essay on "The Swimmer" by novelist Chabon in Salon.com
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