Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [406]
CHAPTER THREE {1926-1930}
33 “Mr. Forsyth” and “Harry Dobson”: JJC, 180, 284. On p. 180, the name “Mr. Forsyth” (which appears in the original) has been deleted.
34 “match the purchase to the person”: Rollin Bailey to SD, Sept. 4, 1985, Swem.
34 “You can't sell this”: CJC, 188.
34 “the same exclusiveness and beauty”: “Open Little Shop Around the Corner: Mrs. Cheever's New Store Has Atmosphere of French Salon,” Patriot Ledger (Quincy), Sept. 30, 1929, 2.
35 “They could have their humorless Boston respectability”: HBD, 16.
35 “My underlying conviction is that any Cheever”: FLC Jr. to Sarah Cheever, Dec. 4, 1970, PJC.
36 “I have been a storyteller”: JJC, 156.
36 “I am Mrs. F. Lincoln Cheever”: Henry Allen, “John Cheever: Capturing the Splendors of Suburbia,” Washington Post, Oct. 8, 1979, B13.
36 “Unclean outcasts whose destiny”: notes on F, Houghton.
37 “I'm tickled to know that the letters still serve”: LJC, 221.
37 “the antiques … out of Cheever's Yankee past”: CJC, 204.
37 “dissipation of every kind”: Lillian Wentworth, “ … And Recalled: John Cheever at Prep School,” Parents League of New York Review, 1984, 1.
38 “a large cast of absolutely naked men”: JC, “My Friend Malcolm Cowley” New York Times Book Review, Aug. 28, 1983, 7.
38 “What future is there … ?”: Florence M. Varley “My Most Famous Student,” NRTA Journal, March/April 1974, 33. 38 “didn't take well to discipline”: CJC, 194.
38 “It made me feel good”: ibid., 103.
38 “safety-pinned tuxedo”: JC to Louis Kronenberger, May 21 [1968?], Copley.
39 “the first account we have of controlled schizophrenia”: CJC, 25.
39 “My friend, John Cheever, loves it”: New York Times Book Review, Jan. 15, 1956, 5.
39 “It must sound awfully precocious”: CJC, 21.
39 “I thought … he was a Charlus”: author int. Litvinov, Dec. 3, 2004.
39 “I remember walking down a street in Boston”: JJC, 152.
40 “some marble-shooting chum”: JC to Frederick Bracher [c. July 1964], Bancroft.
40 “What have you learned from Ernest Hemingway?”: Jesse Kornbluth, “The Cheever Chronicle,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 21, 1979, 102.
40 “I think it's fine that Bill Faulkner got the Nobel Prize”: LJC, 142.
40 “enormous confidence in their own genius”: Malcolm Cowley, “John Cheever: The Novelist's Life as a Drama,” Sewanee Review, 91, no. 1 (1983), 12.
40 Manhattan that “was still filled with a river light”: SJC, vii. 40 Fielding consumed “intravenously”: CJC, 75.
40 “Oh no, no,” he hemmed: author int. George McLoone, July 31, 2004.
41 “For Christ's sake”: JJC, 152.
41 “The beach was deserted”: JC memoir fragment, Berg; see also F, 60-62.
42 “drunken, debauched and naked”: LJC, 338.
42 “He did not even give me bus fare”: JJC, 242.
43 “I'm a businesswoman!”: Alwyn Lee, “Ovid in Ossining,” Time, March 27, 1964, 68.
43 “ ‘Polish them Dad’ “: FLC Sr. to JC, Oct. 17, 1943, CFP.
43 “Well, she did damage my father”: CJC, 235.
44 “to give some fitness and shape”: JC to Bracher, July 15, 1962, Bancroft.
45 “[E]very stranger's face”: Marian Christy, “Ben Cheever—a Son in the Shadow,” Boston Globe, Dec. 25, 1988, A14.
45 “total kook”: author int. Anne Peirce, Oct. 27, 2004.
45 “On more than one occasion”: Gordon Godfrey to SD [c. Aug. 1985], Swem.
45 “When I told her people laughed at Galsworthy”: JC, “Expelled,” New Republic, Oct. 1, 1930, 172.
45 “existed not to educate us in any way”: JC, “My Friend Malcolm Cowley,” 18.
46 “I was approached by angry graduates”: author int. Peter Benelli, Oct. 10, 2004.
46 “extremely understanding and vastly intelligent”: CJC, 237.
46 “The young man was not expelled from the Academy”: Stacy B. Southworth to Horace Thorner, Oct. 24, 1930, Thayer.
46 Judging from “Expelled”: for insight into Cheever's apparent research of The New Republic's pet issues, I'm indebted to Giles Y. Gamble's fascinating paper, “John Cheever's ‘Expelled’: The Genesis of a Beginning,” American Literary History 7, no. 4 (1994), 611-32.
47 “alarmingly mature,” as Updike put it: OJ, 114.
48 “It felt precisely … eighty-seven dollars”: CJC,