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401 “[made] an exclamation of distaste”: JJC, 233.
401 Mrs. Zagreb “raked the male guests”: LJC, 258.
402 taking his first “hack job”: JC to McLoone, Oct. 18 [1967], Georgetown University Library.
402 Mary … “[did] not seem cheered”: JJC, 238.
402 seemed to “miss the plane”: LJC, 260.
402 “gabbling like a turkey”: ibid., 255.
402 “She has the tact and discretion”: JC, “Sophia, Sophia, Sophia,” Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 21, 1967, 33–35.
402 “She wrote, she wrote, she loves me”: JC to WM [c. Oct. 1967], Berg.
403 “suffered from an unstable prostate”: JC to Ray Mutter, Nov. 10 [1967].
404 “The admissions committee at the club”: JJC, 244.
404 “the narrator isn't a man”: WM to JC, April 18, 1967, NYPL-MSS.
404 “They pay well and they are hospitable”: JC to McLoone, March 11 [1968], Georgetown University Library.
405 “for reasons that I can't recall”: LJC, 265.
406 “Of course I cannot judge the book”: JJC, 249–50.
406 “So off one goes”: LJC, 250.
407 “Wipe that artificial smile off your face”: ibid., 358–59.
407 “lest [his] smile fall to the bottom of the sea”: GT, 210.
CHAPTER THIRTY {1968–1969}
408 “I'm afraid I was a nuisance about money”: JC to Gottlieb [c. July 1968], Swem.
408 “I've changed everything—my doctor”: JC to Lindley, Sept. 17, 1968, Swem.
408–409 “I believe we have voted for the swimming pool”: JC to Cowley [1962?], Newberry.
409 “No!” she shouted into the telephone: author int. Anne Palamountain, June 28, 2004.
409 “This, of course, has nothing to do”: JC to Ames, July 28, 1968, NYPL-MSS.
409 “imperturbable, humorous and fair”: JC, “Elizabeth Ames,” Sept. 7, 1968, Berg.
410 “I've written nothing”: GT, 209.
410 “Clichés of suburban life!”: CJC, 36.
410 “After a few more questions have been detonated”: ibid., 28.
411 “Guess what the bill is?”: ibid., 32.
411 “Perhaps you remember”: Gottlieb to JC, Sept. 5, 1968, Swem.
411 Bullet Park … “better than the Scandal”: JC to Bracher, Dec. 11, 1968, Bancroft.
411 “a cast of three characters”: CJC, 97.
412 the modern world's “living hell”: Benjamin DeMott, “The Way We Feel Now,” Harper's, Feb. 1964, 111–12.
412 “I would rather have an informative [review]”: CJC, 33.
412 “My father seemed suddenly very frail”: HBD, 180.
412 Reviews of Bullet Park: Benjamin DeMott, in New York Times Book Review, April 27, 1969, 1, 40–41; Charles Nicol, in Atlantic Monthly, May 1969, 96–98; Guy Davenport, in National Review, June 3, 1969, 549–50; Joyce Carol Oates, in Washington Post Book World, April 20, 1969, 1, 3; JU, reprinted in Picked-Up Pieces (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 427–28; John Leonard, in New York Times, April 29, 1969, 43; Anatole Broyard, in New Republic, April 26, 1969, 36–37.
413 “I count on my experience with Fred”: JC, notes on BP, Berg.
414 “Neither Hammer nor Nailles”: CJC, 111.
414 “Nailles's blessing is that he is married”: John Gardner, “Witchcraft in Bullet Park,” New York Times Book Review, Oct. 24, 1971, 2, 24.
416 “I go on about the vulnerability of Nailles”: JC, notes on BP, Brandeis.
417 “I don't work with plots”: CJC, 102.
418 “What I wanted was verisimilitude”: JC to Litvinov, Feb. 27 [1969].
420 “dumped on [the book] in the Times“: CJC, 97.
420 “and one couldn't ask for more”: JC to Bracher, July 21, 1969, Bancroft.
421 “I think something misfired”: LJC, 278.
421 “plugging for tenure at Amherst”: Samuel Coale, “Portrait of John Cheever,” unpublished manuscript, Swem.
421 “I aimed for the head”: JC to Litvinov, Sept. 1 [1970?].
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE {1969–1970}
422 “We rip off our clothes”: JJC, 254.
423 “I'll be taking the train”: author int. Lehmann-Haupt and Robins, Aug. 15, 2004.
423 “the most beautiful woman”: HBD, 126.
423 “Swooping (or so I thought) among the trees”: LJC, 271.
423 “substitute physical pain and infirmity”: JJC, 254.
423 “I can't write you a story”: LJC, 270.
424 “the minutiae of upper-middle-class life”: JJC, 249.
424 “First scoop at half past nine”: ibid., 255–56.
424 “[M]any thanks for … page numbers”: JC to Roth, June 16 [1969], LC.