![]() ![]() ![]() The volume was published in 1943 by Random House under the auspices of its co-founder Bennett Cerf, while Cheever was serving in a US infantry unit. O’Hara in John Cheever: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989). They are essentially naturalistic reports on biological specimens responding to various stimuli, rather than stories about people by someone with a human interest in their human spirits…”- Literary critic James E. “With few exceptions, the stories Cheever published between 1935 and early 1942 are coldly detached in tone, as the teller were curious about the characters and their problems- but nothing more. These depression-era works appeared in a number of literary journals, including Collier's, The New Republic, The Yale Review, Story and The New Yorker. The thirty short stories selected for publication in The Way Some People Live are a sampling of the more than 40 short stories Cheever wrote between 19. "The Man Who Was Very Homesick for New York" "These Tragic Years" (The New Yorker, September 27, 1941) "When Grandmother Goes" (The New Yorker, December 14, 1940) ![]() " Publick House" (The New Yorker, August 16, 1941) "Of Love: A Testimony" (Story, December 1935) "Forever Hold Your Piece" (The New Yorker, November 23, 1940) "Summer Theatre" (The New Yorker, August 24, 1940) ![]()
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