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Benjamin Cheever


Benjamin Cheever is the author of The Plagiarist and The Partisan (Editor's Choice of the New York Times Best Books of 1994). A former editor at Reader's Digest, he has written for the New York Times, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He edited The Letters of John Cheever. He lives in Pleasantville, New York.

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The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

eBook | 256 pages | Random House | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-43262-9 (0-307-43262-9)

December 18, 2007 | $27.95



What would you write if no one knew who you were?

In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously–and dangerously. With the usual...