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1 online resource (378 pages) |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Prelude: This is Really Easy -- Chapter 2: A Splendid Idea -- Chapter 3: I Suppose you could Say they Haven't been Delivered -- Chapter 4: ''A Perfect Agent for the Eighties -- Chapter 5: John's Poor Litde Stories -- Chapter 6: Serious Inequities in the Contract -- Chapter 7: They're My only Children -- Chapter 8: Cheever Clout -- Chapter 9: Franklin Thinks Maybe the Cheevers Won't Like It -- Chapter 10: The Cheevers' Concern about Premature Publicity |
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Chapter 11: It's a Matter of HonorChapter 12: The Work is of Grossly Substandard Quality -- Chapter 13: Hearing in White Plains: They are Not the Stories of John Cheever -- Chapter 14: It Competes Direcdy with the Published Literature of John Cheever -- Chapter 15: I Want you to Publish this Book -- Chapter 16: The Royce Hotel: You Won't Sell as Many Books as Random House -- Chapter 17: ''As if this were Dirty Laundry ... Gossip -- Chapter 18: Mary Cheever's Deposition: I Would Like this Creep to Finish |
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Chapter 19: Franklin Dennis's Deposition: I'm Going to Ask the Witness not to Speak with his AttorneyChapter 20: Susan Cheever's Deposition: They are Essentially Package Engineers Rather than Publishers -- Chapter 21: Ben Cheever's Deposition: I Don't Know a Lot about What is in This Xerox -- Chapter 22: Andrew Wylie's Deposition: What was the Man's Name? -- Chapter 23: Evidentiary Hearing, White Plains, Day 1, A.M.: Is that the One they Made into a Movie? -- Chapter 24: Evidentiary Hearing, White Plains, Day 1, P.M.: Which President were you Speaking Of? |
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Chapter 25: Evidentiary Hearing, Day 2, A.M.: Who is the Beggar?Chapter 26: Evidentiary Hearing, Day 2, P.M.: Do you Contend that She Knew what She was Doing when She Did That? -- Chapter 27: Interlude between Courtrooms: The Second Thing they Do, Is they Come before You in a Judge Bash -- Chapter 28: Goettel's Opinion: All Plaintiffs will Prevail -- Chapter 29: It Looks Like It's Going to be Relatively Easy -- Chapter 30: You Don't See a Moral Issue Here? -- Chapter 31: Chicago Trial, Days 1 and 2: They could be Bad, They, could be Good, That is not the Issue |
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Chapter 32: Chicago Trial, Day 3: Welcome to our Fair CityChapter 33: Judge Kiley's Decision: Most of the Dispute has been Decided -- Chapter 34: ''A Literary Gold Mine -- Chapter 35: John was the King of Hades -- Chapter 36: Paul is Named Jack and Mani is Amy -- Chapter 37: It becomes Like a Garbage can of Stories -- Chapter 38: Enforcing a Contract for Mary Cheever -- Chapter 39: Mrs. Cheever Loves those Stories -- Chapter 40: Small Press, Small Book -- Chapter 41: It's Still a Very Good Idea, in the Abstract -- Chapter 42: It's Like Getting a Cancer off your Back |
| Summary |
The story of how little Academy Chicago Publishers (co-owned by the author and her husband, Jordan Miller) tried to publish the late John Cheever's uncollected short stories, and was blocked from doing so by Cheever's family, is now a familiar part of publishing lore (and law) |
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Print version record |
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Cheever, John.
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Cheever, John -- Family
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Cheever, John fast |
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Academy Chicago Publishers.
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Academy Chicago Publishers fast |
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Press law -- United States
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Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Small presses -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
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LAW -- Intellectual Property -- General.
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Authors and publishers
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Families
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Literature publishing
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Press law
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Small presses
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Illinois -- Chicago
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780897338790 |
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0897338790 |
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9780897338783 |
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0897338782 |
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