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228 “At dinner I am conscious”: JJC, 67.
229 “I loved him”: SD int. Saul Bellow, July 10, 1984, Swem.
229 “It fell to John”: Saul Bellow, eulogy, June 23, 1982, reprinted in American Academy of Arts and Letters, Proceedings (1982), 49–51.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN {1956–1957}
230 “a cross between the Fall River Line”: JC to WM [c. Oct. 25, 1956], Berg.
231 “to the noise of smashing flower vases”: JJC, 71.
231 “Is this all … ?”: JC to Clark and R. P. Warren, Feb. 28 [1957], Swem.
231 “Mary bought violets”: LJC, 191.
232 “They talk gaily”: JC to WM, Nov. 10 [1956], Berg.
232 “the dash of Roman men”: JJC, 69.
232 “Scout camp”: ibid., 70.
232 “There is only one chair in the salon”: LJC, 186.
232 “impulsive or hasty guests”: JC to Biddle, Oct. 19 [1957?], LC.
233 “a convent where they work the nose off her”: LJC, 189.
233 Reviews of Stories: n.a., in Time, Dec. 3, 1956, 106–7; Richard Sullivan, in New York Times Book Review, Dec. 23, 1956, 121; William Peden, in Saturday Review, Dec. 8, 1956, 52; Orville Prescott, in New York Times, Dec. 5, 1956, 37.
233 “The writers explained”: JC, “Authors’ Note,” in Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956).
234 “What a very nice idea!”: quoted in JC to WM [c. June 1955], NYPL-MSS.
234 “raising great Biblical clouds of dust”: LJC, 192.
234 “I Cheevers hanno bisogno di me”: Elizabeth Spencer to SD, Dec. 11, 1985, Swem.
234 brutta figura: HBD, 112.
235 “He studied the dictionary carefully”: ibid., 114.
235 “Academy and unAcademy”: LJC, 187.
235 “old 59th Street cross-town trolley cars”: GT, 95.
235 Warren as an “academic charlatan”: JC to Laurens Schwartz, Oct. 28 [1975], Swem.
236 “about as clear, sweet and blue-sky”: LJC, 194.
236 cream-colored sedan: Michael Shnayerson, Irwin Shaw (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989), 250.
236 “Irwin stopped at the [Excelsior] desk”: LJC, 195.
237 “arsehole jokes and golden piety”: JJC, 73.
237 “She did this for two weeks”: JC to Emily Maxwell, April 5, 1957, Berg.
237 “I went to the zoo for a Campari “: JC to Litvinov, March 8 [1968].
237 found his wife “in great pain”: LJC, 201.
237 “I don't ever remember loving”: JJC, 80–81.
238 “a source of boundless pleasure”: ibid., 369.
238 “Il Duce! Il Duce!”: LJC, 201.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN {1957}
240 “Boston trust company”: JC to Edith Haggard [c. Nov. 1956], Columbia.
240 “But dizzy with excitement”: JJC, 78.
240 “the Albany Times-Union”: LJC, 197.
240 Reviews of The Wapshot Chronicle: Maxwell Geismar, in New York Times Book Review, March 24, 1957, 5; Charles Poore, in New York Times, March 26, 1957, 31; Glendy Culligan, in Washington Post, March 24, 1957, E6; Fanny Butcher, in Chicago Sunday Tribune Book Review, March 31, 1957, 4; Winfield Townley Scott, in New York Herald Tribune Book Review, March 24, 1957, 1, 9; Granville Hicks, in New Leader, April 8, 1957, 21–22.
241 “Where did [Cheever] get the confidence”: Foreword, WC (New York: Perennial Classics Edition, 2003), x.
241 “a freedom to pursue their emotional lives”: JC to Frederick Bracher, July 15, 1962, Bancroft.
242 “Perhaps you could have given”: Cowley to JC, Jan. 3, 1957, Newberry.
242 “such a pig-headed fool”: LJC, 194.
242 “One never, of course, asks is it a novel?”: JC, “An Exchange on Fiction,” New York Review of Books, Feb. 3, 1977, 44.
245 “Mamie is reading the Washington Star”: JJC, 84.
245 “a vaguely suggestive cover”: HBD, 176.
246 “just to see how disgusting it was”: GT, 99.
246 “She likes to take care of [Federico]”: JC to WM [c. May 1957], Berg.
247 “The victim lay in a heap”: SJC, 309; see also JJC, 81.
248 “just put … in a drawer somewhere”: JC to WM, June 7, 1957, NYPL-MSS.
248 “write some more pieces”: WM to JC, July 8, 1957, NYPL-MSS.
248 “Yes, the city is dangerous!”: JJC, 87.
248 “When we arrived here”: JC to Peter and Ebie Blume [c. Aug. 1957], Swem.
248 “When Ben walks down the street”: JC to WM [c. July 1957], Berg.
249 “And it seems that we cannot reform”: JJC, 85.
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