The Enormous Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by John Cheever published in 1953 by Funk and Wagnalls.

[12] Meanor declares that these self-reflective writings "directly influenced" the development of Cheever's fiction: By the late 1940s, there is evidence that his journals allowed him to exercise his emotional and spiritual faculties more confidently.

As a result...the stories in The Enormous Room are longer, more reflective, and psychologically more probing and complex than in his earlier naturalistic stories…His often painful and guilt-laden journals, which show his penchant for self-laceration, ironically worked to refine, deepen, and expand his prose style into one of the most lyrically elegant voices in modern American literature.

[13]"By the time of his second collection, The Enormous Radio and Other Stories, Cheever had laid the groundwork for a repertoire of characters, conflicts, and the themes that recur so regularly that they evolve into a world of their own.

"[15] Lynne Waldeland cites the same three stories, offering them as evidence for Cheever's emergence as a modern innovator in short fiction.