Thursday, May 28, 2015

John Cheever nailed It

This quote about sums it up for me. Making some sense over all the chaos with a couple of 'social fiction' stories.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. 
American novelist John Cheever (born May 27, 1912) was not a good student in high school. His grades were extremely poor, but he channeled the negative experience into writing. The result, a short story called Expelled, was published when Cheever was 18. 

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