from The New York Daily News

A toast to John Cheever on his 100th birthday

The master of the short story is remembered with a reissue of his classic tales and tribute events

BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

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Long before Don Draper, there was John Cheever. The master of the American short story was the original purveyor of midcentury mystique, especially its darker facets.

The endless drinking, ever-present cigarettes, infidelities, secrets of suburban life and anxiety regarding America’s place in the postwar world — they’re all in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Stories of John Cheever.”

That book is getting an updated edition from Random House come May 27, on what would have been Cheever’s 100th birthday.

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