Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [426]
426 “a little like Zelda”: JC to Kronenberger, June 16 [1969], Copley.
427 “he is a kind of prince, scourge, God”: JC to Litvinov, Aug. 25 [1969].
427 “I spend a lot of time kissing her”: JJC, 238.
427 “the two most self-centered animals”: ibid., 240.
428 “roughed up by the Man!”: CJC, 76.
428 “barefoot [with] a fan-shaped beard”: JJC, 247.
428–429 He found this “wide of the mark”: e-mail from Doug Brayfield to author, June 2, 2005.
429 “When did you start wearing a red necktie?”: Dick Polman, “John Cheever: The Other Story,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 18, 1988, sec. I, pp. 1, 5.
429 “the way suits fit bears and chimpanzees”: LJC, 279.
430 “My older son seems seriously to have switched”: JJC, 258.
432 “the peacemaker”: Marian Christy, “Ben Cheever—a Son in the Shadow,” Boston Globe, Dec. 25, 1988, A14.
432 “My dearly beloved son comes in the middle of dinner”: JJC, 296.
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO {1969–1970}
434 “a little nut-brown guy”: SD int. Shana Alexander, Sept. 21, 1984, Swem.
434 “I am a man, a free man”: JJC, 262–63.
434 his wife's “contemptuous and weary voice”: ibid., 263–64.
435 “Hope and Alan are getting a divorce”: GT, 219.
435 “I don't want to return on these terms”: JC to WM [c. Oct. 1969?], Berg.
436 “meant to demolish Barthelme”: JC to Stern, Oct. 1 [1970], Chicago.
436 “I am disappointed in Artemis”: JJC, 270.
437 “Fred is on a diet”: LJC, 285.
438 “I haven't been as thrilled by anything”: author int. Sandra Hochman, Oct. 11, 2004.
439 described the boyfriend as a “gymnast”: LJC, 283.
440 “implie[d] rapprochement”: J. William Silverberg, notes.
440 “What a waste of time to ridicule them”: LJC, 282.
441 drinking “was beginning to drag on him visibly”: JU to SD, June 25, 1984, Swem.
441 “I mount my beloved”: JJC, 265.
441 “something about a sale at Lord & Taylor's”: unpublished chapter of TT, CFP.
441 “Water lilies grow at the edge of the pond”: JJC, 269.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE {1971–1972}
444 “Is what I have to say urgent”: JC, “Fiction Is Our Most Intimate Means of Communication,” U.S. News & World Report, May 21, 1979, 92.
444 “Esquire wants to buy it”: LJC, 285.
445 “1. I drink too much”: JC to Cowley [c. May 1971], Newberry.
446 “I want a new cadence”: JC to Candida Donadio, Jan. 26, 1970, Swem.
446 “I'm happy to have been born in the same century”: JC to Donadio [c. June 1971], Swem.
448 “a very wide net”: Anatole Broyard, in New York Times, Sept. 12, 1973, 45.
448 “My friendship with The New Yorker”: JC to Litvinov [c. Nov. 1971].
449 “I didn't go to Sing Sing to gather material”: CJC, 127.
449 “He was bare-assed and had the shotgun”: LJC, 369.
449 “exactly twenty-seven details”: JC to Cowley [c. May 1971], Newberry.
449 “stamina and courage”: JC, “The Melancholy of Distance,” in Chekhov and Our Age, ed. James McConkey (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Center for International Studies, 1984), 132.
449 “Tomorrow I go to Sing-Sing”: LJC, 284.
450 an exercise “in making sense of one's life”: CJC, 242.
450 “Oh what a cool motherfucker”: JC to WM [c. June 1971], Berg.
450 “I had hoped to do something like Camus”: quoted in GT, 217.
451 (“I thought, ‘One what … ?’ “): SD int. Donald Lang, Sept. 20, 1984, Swem.
451 “You'd make a great hostage”: CJC, 125.
451 “[I]f the cons and I were lined up”: ibid., 242.
452 “He explained that his acceptance”: Stinnett to SD, Nov. 26, 1985, Swem.
452 “everything but shout ‘fire’ “: GT, 221.
453 “I trust he hasn't heard”: JC to McLoone [c. Aug. 1971], Georgetown University Library.
453 “[He] knew I was a fan of … Koren”: TT, 175.
453 “Thirty years ago”: JJC, 278.
453 “Not often … and I can't remember the names”: CJC, 52.
453–454 “Oh, she writes about men, women, children”: ibid., 253.
454 “I have sometimes complained, husband”: MC, “Gorgon,” in The Need for Chocolate and Other Poems (New York: Stein and Day, 1980), 18–19.
455 “Paranoia: The New Urban Life Style”: Richard Todd, “Gathering at Bunnymede,” Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1972, 86–88.
455 “Not since I came into my inheritance”: author int. Herbert Gold, March 5,