Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [430]
516 “This is the one I want!”: author int. John Dirks, May 9, 2004.
517 Updike, whose “immense kindness”: JC to JU, June 2 [1975], Houghton.
517 “giant martinis in jelly glasses”: Betsy Brown, “The Friday Club, A Cheever Salon,” New York Times, June 27, 1982, sec. 11, pp. 1, 8.
517 “I used to be an alcoholic”: SD int. Marion Ascoli, July 5, 1984, Swem.
517 “[If John] can do [AA]”: FLC Jr. to David Cheever, May 15, 1975.
517 “lack[ing] the coherence of a redneck cult”: JC to Brinnin, Dec. 9 [1975?], Delaware.
518 “My name is Jawn”: GT, 244.
518 his “wife of a hundred years”: author int. Clare Thaw, May 6, 2004.
518 pathetic old man in an “ill-fitting suit”: JJC, 305.
518 “ ‘Yesterday was a memory, tomorrow is a dream’ “: ibid., 369.
519 “We really need you, Truman”: e-mail from Grace Schulman to author, June 29, 2004.
519 “You're an alcoholic like me”: SD int. Dudley Schoales, Jr., July 17, 1984, Swem.
520 “I've changed violently”: JJC, 303.
520 “that the house wasn't cleaned by gremlins”: NFB, 124.
520 “I lean for a kiss. There is none”: JJC, 309.
521 “highly polished brown loafer”: BP, 61.
521 “missed their date at the municipal dump”: JJC, 314.
521 “Fred got honors at Andover”: GT, 244.
521 “put her little feet on the path”: JC to Schwartz, Oct. 7 [1975], Swem.
522 “Poldark! Poldark!”: Steven Hager, “Cheever on Writing for TV,” Horizon, Dec. 1981, 56.
522 “face of a ferret”: JC to Gurganus, May 26 [1976].
522 “the small museum guard in a worn uniform”: JJC, 330.
523 “without precaution or moderation”: Gurganus to JC [c. March 1975], Swem.
523 “A[llan] seems … to magnify the incongruities”: JJC, 306.
CHAPTER FORTY {1975–1976}
524 “[his] sordid deliquesence [sic]”: JC to anon., unmailed draft [summer 1975?], Houghton.
525 “we were the kind of people”: JC, “The Folding-Chair Set,” New Yorker, Oct. 13, 1975, 38.
525 “finger-exercise” to commemorate: JC to Coates, Oct. 31 [1975].
525 “Do you know who I am?”: author int. Charles McGrath, Aug. 5, 2004.
526 “I am pleased that my work”: JC to Siggelkow, Feb. 7 [1976].
526 “We are very grateful to John”: WM to Donadio, n.d., NYPL-MSS.
526 “They were all very pleased with it”: CJC, 118.
526 “brain[ing] Tom Glazer”: JC to Coates, Oct. 31 [1975].
526 “Up the river to Yaddo”: JJC, 311–12.
527 “John! What a coincidence!“: author int. Gurganus, April 30, 2004.
527 “she decided that the people she loved”: JC, “The Hostess of Yaddo,” New York Times Book Review, May 8, 1977, 3, 35.
527 “positively no smoking”: author int. Melissa Meyer, Aug. 8, 2004.
527 Gurganus … rolled his eyes: author int. Philip Schultz, July 27, 2004.
528 “strike some sort of peace”: JC to Brinnin, Sept. 4 [1975], Delaware.
528 “I must repair my farewell scenes”: JC to Schwartz, Nov. 17 [1975], Swem.
528 “That place is asshole”: JC to Schwartz, Dec. 8 [1975], Swem.
528 “ ‘Hot shit,’ [the cabbie] said”: JC to Valhouli, Dec. 6 [1975], Swem.
528 “When you're hot you can write anything”: Barbato int. JC, Oct. 27, 1978, Swem.
528 “How like sandpipers were the children”: JC, “The President of the Argentine,” Atlantic Monthly, April 1976, 44.
528 “[T]he piece is shapeless and self-indulgent”: Atlantic editorial memo, Dec. 29, 1975, courtesy of Michael Janeway.
529 “Intoxicated by the news”: Dana Gioia, “Meeting Mr. Cheever,” Hudson Review 39, no. 3 (Autumn 1986), 421.
530 “All writers suffer terribly from delusions”: LJC, 319.
531 “He gets out. Farragut gets out”: CJC, 128.
531 “I think the work is successful”: JJC, 321.
531 “nearly run over by Donald Lang”: JC to Gurganus, April 23 [1976].
531 “[didn't] really give a shit”: JC to Coates, May 4 [1976].
532 “It's not very often”: McGrath to Donadio, May 25, 1976, NYPL-MSS.
532 “[he] screams a lot, says blah blah blah”: JC to Weaver, June 2 [1976], CFP; the remark is deleted from the letter published in GT, 264.
532 “My discontents are quite simple”: JC to Donadio, Feb. 17 [1977], Swem.
532 “I am the sort of iconoclast”: LJC, 322.
532 “one of the dandy little apartments”: FLC Jr. to David Cheever [c. April 1976?].