Susan Cheever
Is Anthony Weiner an Addict or Just an Ass?
Make all the jokes you want, but the implosion of New York's golden-boy is no laughing matter. The destructive risks he took despite his promising life and career suggest that he's not just another pervy politician, but an addict in dire need of help. MORE
Is It Time to Take the Anonymous Out of AA?
Anonymity has always been a bedrock tradition of AA. Yet even as it protects people from stigma, it also preserves the negative status quo. After all these years, should AA come out of church basements and into the streets? MORE
Susan Cheever on Her Father's Sober Last Days
John Cheever was a great American writer—and a notorious alcoholic. But he gave his daughter a model of sobriety in his final years that she would call upon to support her own difficult recovery MORE









