Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [420]
290 “I spend the night with C.”: JJC, 143.
290 “When I die you can put on my headstone”: F, 121.
290 his “seafaring progenitors” had all kept journals: GT, 17.
290 “stacks of satisfied starlets”: LJC, 270.
291 “a big, important film that will explore”: JC to WM, May 2, 1961, NYPL-MSS.
291 “or in fact up them”: Kentfield to Porter, May 20, 1962, University of Maryland.
292 “Kentfield's nude and battered body”: Point Reyes Light, Sept. 11, 1975, 1.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO {1961}
293 “We know that it commands the greatest views”: quoted in Geoff Walden, “Dealing with Fame and Death,” Ossining Citizen Register, June 19, 1982.
293 “I feel very much like a bum”: quoted in GT, 134.
294 “Irwin came for lunch”: ibid., 155.
294 “not for her work … but for a nonstop”: JC to Louise Bogan, May 4, 1959, Academy.
295 “If the knife should slip”: LJC, 235.
295 “intensely uncomfortable”: JC to Herbst [c. June 1964], Yale.
295 “I'm glad you asked”: LJC, 234.
296 “fire off [his] shotgun at intervals”: ibid., 258–59.
296 “immediately thought of John Cheever”: author int. Andrew Ziegler, May 4, 2004.
296 “I am loving the Beatles”: JC to WM [c. June 1964], Berg.
297 “inhibitive megrims”: JC to Herbst, May 6 [1961?], Yale.
297 “I never dreamed I'd take a leak”: GT, 141.
297 “As he approached the bridge”: JJC, 148.
298 “marvelous brightness”: Alfred Kazin, Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1973), 111–14.
298 “Micks in the White House!”: JC to Biddle [c. summer 1961], LC.
298 Mrs. Vanderlip had decided to “hydrogen-proof “: JJC, 153.
299 “[Bill] was a man who mistook power for love”: LJC, 314.
300 “Did you know that The New Yorker“: CJC, 107.
300 “[I]t has been my experience”: JC to Glenway Wescott, April 28 [1957], Yale.
300 “Don't believe it” … “What is a shapely day?”: manuscripts of “The Bella Lingua” and “The Country Husband,” Brandeis.
300 “I kept the conversation”: GT, 149.
301 “I blundered. I thought there were two endings”: LJC, 233.
301 “I admire Salinger, of course”: ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE {1962–1963}
302 “I expect that I will continue to report”: JJC, 168.
303 “Oh, don't worry about me, dear”: HBD, 67.
304 “What is involved”: JJC, 150.
305 “His favorite word for me was diffident“: author int. Ann Adams, July 13, 2004.
305 “He has endured many disappointments”: JJC, 165.
305 “I love you”: Sarah Cheever to FLC Jr., July 12 [1964?], PJC.
306 “I was planning to take him trout fishing”: CJC, 124.
306 “collection of quaint episodes”: Ihab Hassan, Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1961), 189.
306 “My credentials”: Bracher to JC, July 4, 1962, Bancroft.
306 “The Wapshot Chronicle is loosely situated”: Frederick Bracher, “John Cheever and Comedy,” Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 6, no. 1 (1963), 66–77.
306 “He's reading Professer Bracher's paper again“: JC to Bracher, Sept. 20, 1962, Bancroft.
307 “the first I've ever received”: Bracher to JC, Oct. 24, 1962, Bancroft.
307 “[C]onsidering the complexity”: JC to Bracher, Feb. 13, 1963, Bancroft.
307 “The body of Cummings”: Hortense Calisher, in A Century at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Corporation of Yaddo, 2000), 46.
307 “The force and openness of their affection”: HBD, 60.
307 “I think of Cummings”: JJC, 230.
308 “thinking, without censure”: JC to James Holmes, April 4, 1979, courtesy of Ned Rorem.
308 “But my itchy member”: JJC, 171.
308 “to love what is seemly”: ibid., 208.
309 “You have two strings to play”: ibid., 176.
309 “Bottom-the-Weaver haircut”: GT, 161.
309 “No necking in the parlor!”: NFB, 31.
309 “I cannot say truthfully”: JJC, 167.
310 “beaming like a foolish swain”: GT, 172.
310 “[L]ast night I dreamed I was a Good Humor man”: ibid., 157.
310 “But the middle, aiie, aiie”: ibid., 159.
310 “A great many people felt”: JJC, 179.
311 “This is the small agony”: CJC, 97.
311 smelling