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(Source: sullypants, via blakebaileyonline)

#John Cheever #Blake Bailey #lit #biography

4 months ago · 10 notes

“While pondering suicide Cheever was his old jovial self among friends, though one day Ettlinger spotted him walking along First Avenue. About to say hello, he suddenly noticed the haunted look on Cheever’s face—”such a powerful expression of sadness”—that he quickly ducked behind a building until his friend had passed.”

Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (via heheheheheheheeheheheehehe)

(Source: 19841979)

#John Cheever #Blake Bailey #suicide

6 months ago · 56 notes

“Many years later, after Cheever had stopped drinking, he often assuaged his melancholy by gorging on cheese and crackers […]”

Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (via heheheheheheheeheheheehehe)

(Source: 19841979)

#Blake Bailey #John Cheever #biography

7 months ago · 54 notes

“Essentially alone with his misery, Cheever began hoarding pills in the drawer of his bedside table, until one day he blurted out that he was “frightened” while lunching with Don Ettlinger: “I wake up at night and I’m calling out ‘Daddy, Daddy, help me,’ and I’ve never called anybody Daddy in my whole life.” He also told Ettlinger about the pills, which helped; afterward the thought of suicide began to seem “less important,” and he decided to see a psychiatrist.”

Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey (via heheheheheheheeheheheehehe)

(Source: 19841979, via popserial)

#Blake Bailey #John Cheever #biography #lit #pills #suicide

7 months ago · 38 notes