BENJAMIN CHEEVER has published in the "New York Times," the "New Yorker," "Gourmet," and "Runner's World," He has taught at Bennington College and The New School for Social Research. The author of the highly praised novels "The Plagiarist," "The Partisan," and "Famous After Death," and editor of "The Letters of John Cheever," he lives in Pleasantville, New York.
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Ben Cheever's hilarious and profound odyssey through the want-ad world. In 1995, America was in the throes of downsizing-fever. Many thousands then, as now, were losing their jobs to the corporate demand of more money for the top, by tighteni... SEE MORE