Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [427]
455 “Saul appeared from the clouds”: JC, presentation of Gold Medal of Honor to Bellow at National Arts Club, Feb. 23, 1978, CFP.
456 “and ate Homeric feasts”: JC, “Melancholy of Distance,” 129.
456 “If you think”: GT, 220.
457 “[I] kept ducking into closets, toilets, etc.”: JC to Exley, July 13 [1972], Rochester.
457 “The flight back from Moscow is painful”: JJC, 280.
457 Zinny's last days: author int. Sarah Stevenson, Dec. 6, 2004, and Annie Thom, Nov. 29, 2004.
458 “I'd like you to meet”: SD int. Tom Glazer, Oct. 27, 1983, Swem.
458 “What has happened to this place”: JJC, 281.
459 “I have entertained John Cheever”: Mary Dirks to “Beloved Friends,” Sept. 10, 1972, Swem.
459 “Both Susie and I grant [Federico]”: LJC, 293–94.
460 “Lang called me from jail”: ibid., 283.
461 convinced the two were “emotionally involved”: SD int. Donadio, June 15, 1984, Swem.
461 “by getting pissed and falling down”: JC to MZ, April 23 [1977].
461 “He just burned himself out”: Author int. John Dirks, May 9, 2004.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR {1972–1973}
462 “The long speech I have prepared”: JJC, 289.
462 “Hey! There's John Cheever!”: NFB, 123.
462 “Sauced, I speculate on a homosexual romance”: JJC, 285.
463 “I think I'd be perfectly capable of killing”: quoted in Frederick Exley, “That Place,” unpublished essay, Rochester.
463 “You'll be able to lift it to the sound of outboard motors”: CJC, 52.
463 “I breakfast on scotch and Librium”: JC to Exley, July 13 [1972], Rochester.
463 “[A]fter his last story in The New Yorker”: JC to grants committee, Jan. 22, 1969, Academy.
463 “didn't find Exley up to his reviews”: Felicia Geffen to JC, Jan. 29, 1969, Academy.
464 “[Cheever] sat on his pompous ass”: e-mail from Tina Bourjaily to Carol Sklenicka, June 1, 2004.
465 “Hoarseness is not … symptom of Clapp”: GT, 223.
465 “That was great fun”: LJC, 288.
465 “I don't know what to do about this house”: ibid., 289.
465 “Feed me to the pigs”: Roger Skillings, journal, April 27, 1973, courtesy of Roger Skillings.
465 “easier to get to Egypt”: author int. Molly Cook and Mary Oliver, Feb. 14, 2005.
465 “a kind of nightmare”: Skillings to Stanley Kunitz, April 17, 1973, courtesy of Skillings.
467 “a slim collection of the ten stories”: HBD, 180–81.
467 Reviews of The World of Apples: Thomas R. Edwards, in New York Review of Books, May 17, 1973, 35; Ronald De Feo, in National Review, May 11, 1973, 536–37; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in New York Times, May 10, 1973, 43; L. Woiwode, in New York Times Book Review, May 20, 1973, 1, 26; D. Keith Mano, in Washington Post Book World, July 1, 1973, 1, 10.
468 “Apples seems to have done much better”: JC to James Valhouli, July 14, 1973, Swem.
468 “All the cardiologists and internists”: author int. Ray Mutter, May 12, 2004.
469 “Oxygen: No Smoking”: JC to Donadio, May 29 [1973], Swem.
469 “‘Are you completely without imagination’ “: LJC, 293.
470 “This brought the cops”: GT, 225.
470 “Don't be silly”: Jack Leggett to SC, June 24, 1982, CFP.
470 the whole “Death in Venice plot”: SD int. Frank Jewett, June 29, 1984, Swem.
470 “Why did you go and tell ‘The Boots’ “: HBD, 165.
470 “There is a sinister shrink in the wings”: GT, 225.
470 his heart did a “clog dance”: JC to Arthur Spear, June 4 [1973], courtesy of Pamela Spear Goff.
472 “The gin bottle, the gin bottle”: JJC, 290–91.
472 “I'm not at all sure what I'm getting into”: JC to Coates, Aug. 23, 1973.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE {1973}
473 “He explained the American Academy”: Ron Hansen to SD, June 25, 1984, Swem.
474 “when we bring off a seminar”: LJC, 297.
474 “We were a bunch of ragtag hippies”: author int. T. Coraghessan Boyle, July 6, 2004.
475 “If that character is supposed to be gay“: author int. Hansen, July 10, 2004.
476 “Look in my closet”: author int. “Elaine Moody,” August 10, 2004.
476 “Ah yes, I loved your book”: Michael Ryan, “Meeting Cheever,” in God Hunger (New York: Viking, 1989), 12–13.
477 “Whatever you do … don't let him drink“: author int. Richard Bausch, July 8, 2004.
477 “I left Iowa never expecting