The Five-Forty-Eight

The Five-Forty-Eight Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Scott Donaldson. John Cheever: A Biography. New York: Open Road Media, 2016.
  • Harold Bloom. John Cheever. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004.
  • Tyler, Ralph. “How a Trio Of Cheever Stories Made It to TV.” The New York Times, 14 Oct. 1979, https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/14/archives/how-a-trio-of-cheever-stories-made-it-to-tv-dramatizing-cheever.html.

  • Treisman, Deborah. "Mary Gaitskill Reads John Cheever." The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, 1 Mar. 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/mary-gaitskill-reads-john-cheever.

  • Martin, Quentin. “Image Making in John Cheever’s THE FIVE-FORTY-EIGHT.” The Explicator, vol. 70–82, no. 2, 2012, pp. 141–43.

  • John Cheever. “The Five-Forty-Eight.” The New Yorker, Apr. 1954.

  • Brown, Adrienne. “We Wear the White Mask: John Cheever Writes Race.” MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 64, no. 1, 2018, pp. 52–78.

  • Aubry, Timothy. “John Cheever and the Management of Middlebrow Misery.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2003, p. 64.

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