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John Cheever

Pop Culture’s Most Jaw-Dropping Twist Endings

By Jon Land

April 17, 2019

Discerning readers will note upon reading Strong as Steel that my tenth book in the Caitlin Strong series features a twist ending, as do many of my books. Call it the influence of The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents on me when I was growing up. But I’ve long found nothing more satisfying than…

Rex Stout smoking cigarette

Rex Stout: An American Wit and Propagandist

By Robert Hughes

May 2, 2011

Rex Stout was a propagandist. You might have thought he was only that author who came up with the enduring Nero Wolfe mysteries, featuring the larger-than-large, orchid-growing detective and his dashing and irreverent right-hand man, Archie Goodwin. But Stout (1886–1975) was that most remarkable—and American—of crime writers. He was a jack of all trades. He…

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