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“... Jesus Christ Kinski, the narrator, a nameless writer who shares many biographical details with Benjamin Myers, describes the reception of a book that sounds a lot like his novel The Offing (2019). ‘After twenty years of putting his words out into the world to decent reviews and aggressively modest sales,’ the writer reflects, ‘his most recent ...”

“... hadn’t finished with him, and now The Letters of John Cheever, edited by the writer’s son Benjamin, means that he has become the victim of a familial double whammy. Susan Cheever’s book is oddly neutral and matter-of-fact in manner; which could not be said of the book her brother has edited. ‘Ned Rorem took the time to shed light on the complex ...”

“... evidence that slavery existed here as well as in the colonies. Despite the titles of Norma Myers’s and Gretchen Gerzina’s contributions to this new historiography, both deal mainly with metropolitan black history (Black London was the title of the American edition of Gerzina’s book). Neither writer refers to Gory, the black manservant of Lord ...”