News about Susan Cheever, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Over the past twenty five years Susan Cheever has written brazenly honest biographies and memoirs, ranging in subjects from her own struggles with alcoholism, sex addiction, and motherhood to her ...

Drinking, and not drinking, is as old as America itself, from the beer-loving pilgrims on the Mayflower and Paul Revere’s boozy horse ride to Prohibition and the rise of Alcoholics Anonymous. Some ...

E.E. Cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever, Pantheon, 240 pages, $26.95. It is one of the minor tragedies of the rock era that rock and rap and their allied musical arts have almost obviated the need for ...

Chuck Close, Jessie Klein, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Heather Armstrong and Susan Cheever fashion their private stories for public consumption. Chuck Close Chuck Close, hyperrealist painter. What we ...

Preface: a trip to Concord -- Trailing clouds of glory, 1832-1849 -- Concord. Louisa in exile, 1840-1843 -- Fruitlands. Family in crisis, 1843-1848 -- Boston. "Stick to your teaching", 1848-1858 -- ...

Over the past twenty five years Susan Cheever has written brazenly honest biographies and memoirs, ranging in subjects from her own struggles with alcoholism, sex addiction, and motherhood to her ...