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  • John Cheever. John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings. New York: Library of America, 2009.
  • Gooderham, W. B. “The Swimmer by John Cheever – into a Suburban Darkness.” The Guardian, 31 Aug. 2015. www.theguardian.com, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/31/the-swimmer-by-john-cheever-into-a-suburban-darkness.

  • Canby, Vincent. “The Screen: Cross-County ‘Swimmer’:Burt Lancaster Stars in Cheever Story Also Arriving, ‘How to Seduce a Playboy.’” The New York Times, 16 May 1968. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/1968/05/16/archives/the-screen-crosscounty-swimmerburt-lancaster-stars-in-cheever-story.html.

  • Updike, John. “Basically Decent: A Big Biography of John Cheever.” The New Yorker, Mar. 2009, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/basically-decent.

  • Cooke, Rachel. “The Demons That Drove John Cheever.” The Observer, 17 Oct. 2009. www.theguardian.com, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/18/john-cheever-blake-bailey.

  • Bowers, Terence. “John Cheever's Mock-Epic: ‘The Swimmer," the ‘Odyssey’, and America's Pursuit of Happiness.” CEA Critic, vol. 70, no. 1, 2007, pp. 17–34. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44378348. Accessed 6 Mar. 2020.

  • Leithauser, Brad. “Cheever’s Art of the Devastating Phrase.” The New Yorker, May 2012, https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/cheevers-art-of-the-devastating-phrase.

  • Aubry, Timothy. “John Cheever and the Management of Middlebrow Misery.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2003, pp. 64–83.
  • "John Cheever: American Author." Britannica. March 9, 2020. <https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Cheever>.
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