cheever-fiction-philosophy

August 1, 2025

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh. I don’t think there’s any consecutive moral philosophy in fiction beyond excellence. Acuteness of feeling and velocity have always seemed to me terribly important. People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

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“I often picture releasing an album as trying to secretly sink a heavy object in a lake — find a quiet corner, gently slip it under the surface, watch the ripples for a moment, and steal away.”

Liz Harris

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