Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [409]
77 “If I followed my instincts”: JJC, 219.
77 Denney had never “known or suspected”: Quagliano, ed., Feast of Strangers, 46.
77 “I wanted to marry almost every girl”: JJC, 247.
77 “He always had this kind of chuckle”: author int. Dodie Merwin Captiva, June 6, 2005.
78 “He would never talk to me about his brother”: author int. FC, Aug. 29, 2004.
78 “He wanted to understand the world”: WM to SC, n.d., CFP
CHAPTER SIX {1935–1938}
79 “I don't know how I'll get along “: JC to Denney [c. Jan. 1935], Dartmouth.
80 “Tomorrow, try writing a story”: Malcolm Cowley, Dream of the Golden Mountains (New York: Viking, 1980), 261.
80 “refinement, discretion, excessive detail”: LJC, 34.
80 “I thought we were taking one”: Katharine White to JC, March 22, 1935, NYPL-MSS.
80 “Things got lower and lower”: JC to Denney [c. March 1935], Dartmouth.
81 “This story … we can't believe is for us”: White to Maxim Lieber, April 15, 1935, NYPL-MSS.
81 “She can't ask about her roomers’ habits”: quoted in White to Lieber, May 2, 1935, NYPL-MSS.
81 “I should be interested to know how”: White to Lieber, June 18, 1935, NYPL-MSS.
81 “I've never imagined making a living”: JC to Denney [c. March 1935], Dartmouth.
82 “Before I left Hanover for the last time”: LJC, 52.
82 “It would be something as casual”: JC, “Of Love: A Testimony,” WSPL, 43-66.
83 “a story writer and a novelist”: LJC, 38.
83-84 “While we were talking about Triuna”: JC to Ames [c. spring 1935], Yaddo Records, NYPL-MSS.
84 “I have almost always worked”: LJC, 37.
84 “Yaddo still goes on”: JC to Cowleys [c. Sept. 1935?], Newberry 84 “I can't get a WPA job”: LJC, 38.
84 “I'm not doing the work I should do”: JC to Denney, Nov. 11, 1935, Dartmouth.
85 “[P]oor John can't sit over there in the dark”: Walker Evans, Walker Evans at Work (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 117.
85 “C'mon, Cheever, join up!”: SD int. Lila Refregier, Jan. 14, 1985, Swem.
85 “nothing in their faces but a love of money”: JC, “In Passing,” Atlantic Monthly, March 1936, 157, 331-43.
86 “I hope he hasn't deserted us entirely”: White to Lieber, April 27, 1936, NYPL-MSS.
86 “But it will be ten times as long”: JC to Denney [c. Jan. 1936], Dartmouth.
87 “I thought of her not as a distinguished writer”: LJC, 41. 87 “Poor Nathan”: ibid., 152.
87 “I'm not as satisfied with it”: JC to Denney [c. April 1936], Dartmouth.
87 “is John Cheever’ right?”: Wolcott Gibbs to JC, June 4, 1936, NYPL-MSS.
87 “It takes almost no gasoline”: JC to Denney, Dec. 11, 1935, Dartmouth.
88 discussed their respective “Belle Isles”: FLC Jr. to Sarah Cheever, Feb. 22, 1972, PJC.
88 “We disagree on everything”: JC to Denney [c. July 1936], Dartmouth.
88 “I'm a stranger here”: JC to Denney [c. Jan. 1936], Dartmouth. move to Maine “and have a boat and a girl”: JC to Denney [c. May 1936], Dartmouth.
89 “My father keeps telling me”: LJC, 40.
89 “Daisey MacAfee Bonner”: JC to Denney, July 3, 1936, Dartmouth.
90 “I woke one morning with a hangover”: LJC, 42.
90 “I am sorry that we don't like this story”: White to Betty Shalett, Sept. 18, 1936, NYPL-MSS.
90 “interested in the Spanish trouble”: “Frère Jacques,” Atlantic Monthly, March 1938, 161-63.
90-91 “really illuminates the contemporary scene”: New York Times Book Review, June 4, 1939, 4.
91 “I haven't appreciated anything as much”: JC to Gibbs, Oct. 13, 1936, NYPL-MSS.
91 “I've got to go over the whole novel”: LJC, 42.
91 “I have a chance of a WPA job”: JC to Denney [c. Oct. 1936], Dartmouth.
92 “It's the vision of those three sheets”: LJC, 50.
92 “a good drinking companion”: JC to Herbst [c. winter 1937?], Yale.
92 “turned his back on his three beautiful Brooklyn novels”: quoted in “DanielFuchs,” Independent (London), Sept. 2, 1993, 30. 92 “It was a pretty idyllic time”: Daniel Fuchs to SD, May 8, 1984, Swem.
92 “When I was younger”: Barbato int. JC, Oct. 27, 1978, Swem.
92 “He wanted terribly to be respected”: SD int. Dorothy Farrell, April 9, 1985, Swem.
93 “crying like a young kid”: “His Young Wife,” Collier's, Jan. 1, 1938, 21-22, 46. 93
92 “[W]hat's happened