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"The Enormous Radio" (The Stories of John Cheever)
So this is where I started to think that maybe I made the right decision taking this off my bookshelf. I didn't love this story anymore than I loved the previous stories but it's got some magical realism baked in - although should we call it magical realism when it's written before the movement? Well that's the problem. Magical realism appears like a compromise in the great genre vs. literary fiction. Like what if a writer put science fiction or horror or fantasy elements into a literary work?
The guy who wrote "The Last Werewolf" (a tedious book) claimed that a literary writer playing with horror or fantasy tropes is like a professor dating a hooker. I still don't know if I would have enjoyed his book if he hadn't used that misogynist line in a review, but I certainly wasn't eager to give it a chance when I realized that he treated his werewolf book like a lark that would get him a ton of money because he was a big bad literary writer playing in the horror ghetto and naturally everyone would love him.
Yet, this story isn't memorable. I think I was skimming it. I was skimming the first few stories in this collection because frankly, I'm not enamored with John Cheever off the bat. In fact, he even states in the introduction that he doesn't like his early work.
But it's interesting. It's definitely interesting. An old couple listens to the radio and hears their neighbors. I think there was a Billy Crystal short story in Playboy where a guy saw his neighbors on cable so he's taking that trope to a more 80s sex magazine thing (Yes, apparently Billy Crystal wrote short stories. One was published in Playboy. A lot of actors write short stories and novels.)*
The big radio gets fixed. The characters stop listening in on their neighbors and instead hear dire news about people getting killed. But that only means that they now have to deal with each other. Marriages suck kids. Unless you can spy on your neighbors together might as well just forget it.
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*Here's where I plug God Laughs When You Die by Michael Boatman of Spin City and The Good Fight fame. It's Splatterpunk. Seriously one of the nicest actors working today writes some fucked up stuff horror.
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Taron Egerton spoke to Jo Parkerson about the daunting task of playing Elton John alongside Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard in Dexter Fletcher's biopic Rocketman.
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Taron Egerton spoke to Jo Parkerson about the daunting task of playing Elton John alongside Jamie Bell, Richard Madden and Bryce Dallas Howard in Dexter Fletcher's biopic Rocketman.
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#Coronavirus: #MagicRadio Launches Daily "Essential Voices" Update
Magic Radio and its sister network Greatest Hits Radio will broadcast a new daily update “essential voices” providing the stories of key workers around the UK.
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