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June 18		John Cheever at Home
		On this day in 1982 John Cheever died at the age of seventy, in Ossining, New York. While alive, critics were calling him "the Chekhov of the suburbs"; in their obituary notice, the hometown paper found a comparison to a Russian, but not Chekhov: "Cheever was as closely associated with Ossining as Emerson with Concord, or Tolstoy with Yasnaya Polyana."
June 17		For Those Potter'd Out...
		On this day in 1938 T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone was published, the first volume in the eventual quartet known as The Once and Future King. Although mindful of the quest archetypes, White's version of Sir Thomas Malory's version of the King Arthur legends takes its own wandering, anachronistic and quirky path, often suggesting Monty Python more than Malory.
June 16		Joyce's Bloomsday Book
		On this day in 1904 James Joyce and Nora Barnacle had their first date, thus giving Joyce the day upon which he would base Ulysses, and giving the rest of us "Bloomsday." The ways in which Nora Barnacle is and is not Molly Bloom continue to be discussed but it seems agreed that she was Joyce's only irreplaceable relationship -- and the only one allowed to call him Jim.