Susan Cheever, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-684-86341-2
Those who look to Cheever's memoirs (Home Before Dark; Note Found in a Bottle) for insights into her father, writer John Cheever, will find this book disappointing. This parenting guide-cum-memoir, based on her weekly New York Newsday
columns,...
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Susan Cheever, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0154-4
The first half of Wilson's life was a perpetual battle with alcohol; the second, a continual struggle to secure both his day-to-day sobriety and the organization that became Alcoholics Anonymous. Cheever's portrayal of Wilson's story...
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Susan Cheever, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (223p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6461-7
This beguiling book is Cheever's exploration of the extraordinary cross-fertilization of creativity in Concord, Mass., during the mid-19th century, when Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the Alcotts lived as neighbors there. If it won't offer...
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Susan Cheever, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (172p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3792-2
“We are a nation of puritanical love junkies,” proclaims Cheever (My Name Is Bill
) in her inquiry into the growing scientific and psychological evidence that suggests a chemical basis for sex addiction. Drawing on a hodge-podge of...
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Susan Cheever, Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6991-6
Little Women was the idea of Alcott's publisher, who bullied her into writing it. Louisa may, Cheever speculates, have taken revenge on Bronson Alcott—a friend of the great Transcendentalists, but an irresponsible and browbeating father—by leaving...
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Susan Cheever, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-374-14657-3
The heroine of Cheever's latest novel, following Doctors and Women , is a 30-year-old New York graphic designer whose father is a famous artist. When first met, Elizabeth is involved in an intense affair with Sebastian Smith, a successful, married...
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Susan Cheever, Author Random House Value Publishing $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56437-0
Whether or not by design, Cheever here delivers her male and female characters in pairs, as though one were the ideal and the other the flawed human being. Oddly enough, it is these latter who are the focus of the story, suggesting that the author's
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Susan Cheever, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07225-9
This measured, absorbing reminiscence by the daughter of John Cheever and the great-granddaughter of Thomas Watson--who with Alexander Graham Bell devised the telephone--explores what her family's myths ``reveal and what they hide.'' One revelation...
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Susan Cheever, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (254p) ISBN 978-0-688-12194-5
Linda Green, a 1960s hippie who lived on a Vermont commune, took LSD and let herself be pushed into an open marriage by her bullying, pot-smoking first husband, is now a suburban mother of two, a high-school Spanish and French teacher and a Boston...
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Susan Cheever, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-684-80432-3
""Like all alcoholics,"" Cheever (Home Before Dark) writes in this brutally frank memoir, ""I worshipped at the shrine of my own heart."" Having studied under her father, John Cheever, a master of alcohol, she was a true acolyte. In her childhood...
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Susan Cheever. Pantheon, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-307-37997-9
“[T]oo popular for the academy and often too sassy to be taught in high school,” Cummings today is frequently overlooked in the canon of great 20th-century American poets. Born in 1894, Cummings left blueblood New England for Greenwich Village,...
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Susan Cheever. Hachette/Twelve, $28 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4555-1386-4
In this whimsical history, author Cheever (My Name Is Bill) examines four centuries of America’s dysfunctional relationship with booze. Her story opens with the Pilgrims landing at Cape Cod “because they were running out of beer” and ends with the...
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John Cheever, Author, Susan Cheever, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (399p) ISBN 978-0-394-57274-1
From the late 1940s until a few days before his death of cancer in 1982, the eminent American short story writer and novelist ( The Wapshot Chronicle ) recorded daily encounters with family, friends and, most powerfully, with conflicting impulses in
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Edited by Judy Sternlight. Simon & Schuster, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6519-8
This appealing collection, edited by Brown alum Sternlight, is neither an ode to the institution nor a glossy publicity stunt marking the university’s 250th anniversary. It’s a relaxed roundtable of reminiscences from accomplished graduates—writers,
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