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271 “still and patient and watchful”: JC to Michael Janeway [c. Sept. 1958].
271 “Susie comes home with the news”: JJC, 124–25.
272 “Ben, poor Ben, bore the brunt”: FC to SC, June 28, 1983, CFP.
274 “rigid with indignation”: GT, 125.
274 “What I claim to feel”: JJC, 141.
274 “When I was seven years old”: LJC, 329.
274 “We'd go outside”: BC, “The Boy They Cut,” in Coaches: Twenty-Five Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, ed. Andrew Blauner (New York: Warner Books, 2005), 199–210.
275 “you could read … identity”: “John Cheever and Family,” TV documentary, BBC Bookmark (1994).
275 “talk to [him] through the dust bunnies”: BC, “My Life with the Bourbon Dynasty,” Independent, Nov. 27, 2000, Features sec., 7.
275 “Fred talks on about his trip”: JJC, 115.
276 “[A]t the moment I have nine dependents”: GT, 115.
276 “I must realize that the people who read my fiction”: JJC, 121.
276 “Coverly as Apollo and Moses as Dionysus”: ibid., 117.
276 “what with the gin and one thing or another”: JC to Biddle, March 7 [1960], LC.
277 “feed, shelter and educate”: JC to Henry Allen Moe, March 28, 1960, Guggenheim Foundation Records.
277 “My one New Year resolution”: JC to Herbst, Jan. 4, 1960, Yale.
277 “could be employed by [Edward] Teller”: manuscript fragment, Berg.
279 “If you don't grow and change”: LJC, 314.
279 “They thought of it as an art story”: ibid., 160.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE {1960–1961}
281 “There will be the boredom and the bigotry”: JC to Biddle, April 30 [1960], LC.
281 “smelled of old poker-decks”: JC to Dawn Powell, July 11, 1960, Columbia.
281 “I'm quite pissy about my disappointment”: GT, 119.
281 “and so handsomely restored by Eric Gugler”: JC, “The Second Most Exalted of the Arts,” Journal of Architectural Education 30, no. 2 (Nov. 1976).
282 “enough bedrooms for us”: LJC, 224.
282 Greenstein—”a pathological cheapskate”: author int. Charles McGrath, Aug. 5, 2004.
282 “and all I have to do now”: LJC, 226.
283 “It was the general hope that Cheever”: Robert Gutwillig, “Dim Views Through Fog,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 13, 1960, 68–69.
283 “This is not for publication”: JC to Gentlemen, May 20 [1959], LC.
284 “The only writer I meant to attack”: JC to Bracher, “Summer 1962,” Bancroft.
284 “all autobiographical characters who describe”: “Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel,” New Yorker, Nov. 12, 1960, 55.
284 “abrasive and faulty surface of the United States”: quoted in Gutwillig, “Dim Views,” 68.
285 “a sort of apocalyptic poetry”: Cowley to JC, Feb. 10, 1961, Newberry.
285 Reviews of Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel: Charles Poore, in New York Times, May 16, 1961, 35; David Boroff, in New York Times Book Review, April 16, 1961, 34.
286 “[Arvin] was fixed at a prepubertal stage”: Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor (New York: Doubleday, 2001), 239.
287 “kind presence will guide [him] away”: GT, 124.
287 “the magnification of all our vices”: LJC, 229.
287 “The sensation of my aloneness”: GT, 234.
287 “fancy hotel apartment” at the Marmont: JC to Arthur and Stella Spear [c. Nov. 1960], courtesy of Pamela Spear Goff.
287 “I ran up a bill of a hundred dollars”: JC to WM [c. Feb. 1961], Berg.
288 “My God, John … your crotch!”: GT, 11.
288 “a side-parlor in the Hotel Gladstone”: JC to WM [c. Dec. 1960?], Berg.
288 treat Wald “like a demented child”: JC to WM [c. Nov. 1960], Berg; the remark is deleted from the letter published in LJC, 229.
288 “They talk about Saroyan's tax problems”: Weaver to MC, Nov. 29, 1960, CFP.
288 he liked Wald “immensely”: Joanne Stang, “Lancaster Swims in Deeper Waters,” New York Times, Aug. 14, 1966, 101.
288 “literary graveyard”: JC to Cowley, Dec. 22, 1960, Newberry.
288 “an old bath-house at the edge of the lot”: LJC, 229.
289 “curious domestic scenes”: JC to the Spears [c. Nov. 1960], courtey of Pamela Spear Goff.
289 Calvin Kentfield: much of the background derives from my interview with Evan S. Connell, July 21, 2005, as well as correspondence