Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [416]
213 “Most of the girls are so subtle”: JC to Clark [c. 1955], CFP.
213 “There is no recorded instance”: SD int. Judith Sherwin, Jan. 18, 1985, Swem.
213 “[it] takes the skin off your back”: CJC, 8.
214 “It was an honor to be sitting there”: author int. Toby Stein, Nov. 29, 2004.
214 “It's been my intention”: JC to Linscott [c. March 1953], Columbia.
214 he found the genre “bankrupt”: LJC, 162.
214 “take some situation like the one”: Cowley to JC, April 27, 1953, Newberry.
214 “‘To my changeling son, Eben’ “: “The National Pastime,” New Yorker, Sept. 26, 1953, 29–35.
215 “a model of wrongness”: JC to WM, July 14, 1953, NYPL-MSS.
215 “a series of eddies and whirlpools”: WM to JC, Nov. 30, 1953, NYPL-MSS.
215–216 “boarding-house widows, seaside girls”: JC, “Independence Day at St. Botolph's,” New Yorker, July 3, 1954, 18–23.
216 “Having revised these lines as Gide”: JC, introduction (1965), WC, xvii.
216 “So many of my plans”: JC to WM [c. Jan. 1955], Berg.
217 “I wonder if any publisher will pay”: JC to Naomi Burton, June 3, 1955, Columbia.
217 “Sally was reluctant”: author int. David Swope, June 30, 2004.
217 “I am able to spend a good deal”: JC to Arthur and Stella Spear, June 30 [1955], papers of Pamela Spear Goff.
217 “When we climbed back to the sand dune”: LJC, 162.
217 “These old bones are for sale”: author int. Simon Michael Bessie, June 4, 2004.
218 “I'm looking for John Cheever!”: HBD, 104.
218 “ate roast beef and drank India Pale Ale”: MC, The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor–Scarborough (Kennebunk, Maine: Phoenix Publishing, 1990), 218.
219 “As you can see from the letterhead”: JC to Herbst [c. Spring 1956], Yale.
219 “While I was writing the book”: JC, introduction (1965), WC, xix.
219 “because of an experience of sexual ecstasy”: author int. Paul Moor, Jan. 9, 2005.
219 “[T]here is some love in our conception”: JJC, 47.
219 “[H]aving lived much of my life”: LJC, 168.
220 “I will not go to church”: JJC, 209.
220 “I'd ask you to stay for dinner, Bill”: SD int. BC, Nov. 8, 1983, Swem.
220 “sufficiently simple … gift shop”: HBD, 168.
220 “a level of introspection”: quoted on The Dick Cavett Show, Oct. 1981, Daphne Productions.
220 “There has to be someone“: GT, 278.
221 “I am eating a capon”: JC to Herbst [c. Nov. 1954], Yale.
221 “a regular boy”: JJC, 65–66.
221 “Who told you?”: author int. Elizabeth Collins, May 2, 2004.
222 “[A]lthough she was afraid of many things”: LJC, 175.
222 “an ugly and useless obscenity”: JJC, 44.
222 “The Chronicle was not published”: CJC, 99.
222 A. J. Liebling wrote: Katharine White to JC, June 18, 1956, NYPL-MSS.
222 “one of our most original”: White to Nadine Gordimer, Oct. 28, 1957, Lilly.
223 “I guess you and I can look forward”: JC to Herbst [c. April 1956], Yale.
223 “You yourself won, didn't you?”: author int. Joseph Caldwell, April 5, 2005.
223 “I am crushed and miserable”: JC to Hannah Josephson [c. April 1956], Academy.
224 “aimed straight at the cockles”: JC to Herbst [c. Oct. 1954], Yale.
224 “I read the Sunday paper while Irwin”: JJC, 57.
224 Cheever “kept putting it off “: John Weaver, “Recollections of a Childlike Imagination,” Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 13, 1977, 3.
224 “The reason I told the dog about it”: GT, 90.
224 “which should be spent on gin, shoes”: LJC, 180.
225 “Bostonians, rocks, sunsets”: JC to Jean Stafford, June 26 [1956], Colorado.
225 calling “Yoo hoo, yoo hoo”: LJC, 184.
225 “The Greatest thing since War and Peace”: GT, 92.
225 “well roared lion”: LJC, 179.
225 “I don't expect to enjoy anything as much”: WM to JC [c. July 1956], NYPL-MSS.
226 “between feeling alive”: JC to Emily Maxwell, April 5 [1957], Berg.
226 “One of the most cheerful things”: White to JC, Aug. 20, 1956, NYPLMSS.
226 “I seem to get nothing from Harpers”: JC to WM, July 30 [1956], Berg.
227 “Harpers seemed to like it”: JC to White, Aug. 24, 1956, NYPL-MSS.
227 “Bellow … first American novelist of parts”: SD int. Bessie, June 6, 1984, Swem.
227 “Here is the blend of French and Russian”: JJC, 20.
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