Uncollecting Cheever : the family of John Cheever vs. Academy Chicago Publishers / Anita Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Anita, 1926- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cheever, John.

Cheever, John--Family.

Academy Chicago Publishers.

Press law--United States.

Press law.

Authors and publishers--United States--History--20th century.

Authors and publishers.

Literature publishing--United States--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

Small presses--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Small presses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

Revised and updated.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : Academy Chicago Publishers, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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).

Contents:

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""

Chapter 11: ""It's a Matter of Honor"" Chapter 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""

Chapter 19: Franklin Dennis's Deposition: ""I'm Going to Ask the Witness not to Speak with his Attorney"" Chapter 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?""

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""

Chapter 32: Chicago Trial, Day 3: ""Welcome to our Fair City"" Chapter 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""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-89733-878-2

OCLC:

881887388