The New York Review of Books

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Allan Gurganus remembering his friend and teacher John Cheever

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I never stop reading him. I swear he gets better every month. So much of the best of him yet lives—his own carbon-based life form still blazing up through ink at us. I still feel him boiling everything down into fables for our time and our future.