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The World Of Apples
''The World of Apples'' is the sixth collection of short fiction by author John Cheever, published in 1973 by Alfred A. Knopf. The ten stories originally appeared individually in ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'' or ''Playboy''. The publication of ''The World of Apples'' coincided with Cheever's nomination to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Stories The original date of publication and name of the journal appear in parentheses.: "The Chimera" (''The New Yorker'', July 4, 1961) "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" (''The New Yorker'', April 27, 1963) "Montraldo" (''The New Yorker'', June 6, 1964) " The Geometry of Love" (''Saturday Evening Post'', January 1, 1966) " The World of Apples" (''Esquire'', December 1966) "Percy" (''The New Yorker'', September 21, 1968) " The Fourth Alarm" (''Esquire'', April 1970) " Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger" (''Playboy'', January 1972) "The Jewels of the Cabots" (''Playboy'', May 1972) "Three Stories" s "Triad" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cheever
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American short story writer and novelist. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs". His fiction is mostly set on the Upper East Side of Manhattan; the Westchester suburbs; old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born; and Italy, especially Rome. His short stories included " The Enormous Radio", " Goodbye, My Brother", " The Five-Forty-Eight", " The Country Husband", and " The Swimmer", and he also wrote five novels: '' The Wapshot Chronicle'' (National Book Award, 1958), from the Award's 50-year anniversary publications and from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) '' The Wapshot Scandal'' (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), '' Bullet Park'' (1969), '' Falconer'' (1977) and a novella, '' Oh What a Paradise It Seems'' (1982). His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Woiwode
Larry Alfred Woiwode (October 30, 1941April 28, 2022) was an American writer from North Dakota, where he was the state's Poet Laureate from 1995 until his death. His work appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', ''Harpers'', '' Gentleman's Quarterly'', '' The Partisan Review'' and ''The Paris Review''. He was the author of five novels; two collections of short stories; a commentary titled "Acts"; a biography of the Gold Seal founder and entrepreneur, Harold Schafer, ''Aristocrat of the West''; a book of poetry, ''Even Tide''; and reviews and essays and essay-reviews that appeared in dozens of publications, including ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post Book World''. He received North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, in 1992. Work Woiwode's debut novel, ''What I'm Going to Do, I Think'', won acclaim and the William Faulkner Foundation Award (1970) for the best first novel of 1969. He further received a Gug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Short Story Collections
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Short Story Collections
Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 1972 Miami Dolphins season, Miami Dolphins defeated the 1972 Washington Redskins season, Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, with the Dolphins ending the season a perfect 17-0. This marked the first and only time that an NFL team has had a perfect undefeated season, an achievement the team holds to this day. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam. * January 17 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines. * January 22 ** ''Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, The Sunshine Showdown'': George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica. ** A Royal Jorda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
