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532 “Just back from a fine visit with John”: FLC Jr. to David Cheever, April 25, 1976.
533 “Fred, I killed you in my novel”: LJC, 321.
533 “He seems … to be suffering a loneliness”: JJC, 321–22.
533 “Yes, yes, Louisa Hatch did the flowers”: LJC, 320.
534 “Some clinician would say”: JJC, 324.
534 “He was … a colleague“: ibid., 323–24.
534 “He is forty-three”: JC to Cowley, April 24, 1976, Newberry.
535 “In yesterday's mail I was cordially invited”: LJC, 355.
535 “most interesting writer of his generation”: Michael J. Bandler, “… a Conversation with the Storyteller,” Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 1978, sec. 7, p. 1.
535 “Updike's fourth-rate novel”: LJC, 353.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE {1976–1977}
536 “such a striking example of egocentricity”: GT, 263.
536 “more readily appreciated”: JC to Vance Bourjaily, July 19, 1976, Bowdoin College Library.
536 “an amiable guide who liked to play backgammon”: GT, 267.
536 “In Romania one drives mostly on such roads”: JC, “Romania,” Travel & Leisure, March 1978, 87.
537 “[T]he Customs man threatened to confiscate”: JC to Schwartz, Aug. 7 [1976], Swem.
537 “You are … a bore”: JC to MZ, April 23 [1977].
538 “went cock-a-hoop over the handlebars”: JC to Gurganus [c. Nov. 1976].
538 “looping red trail eight miles long”: Philip Schultz, “The Eight-Mile Bike Ride,” in The Holy Worm of Praise (New York: Harcourt, 2002), 52–53.
539 “quite humorous and innocent”: JJC, 327.
539 “love of one's neighbor” was a virtue: JC to Sara Spencer, July 4 [1976], Swem.
541 a man “no longer young”: Stephen Sandy to SD, Sept. 22, 1984, Swem.
541 “I got into the tub and pretended”: JJC, 335.
541 “For the master I'll come for bus fare”: author int. James McConkey, Feb. 26, 2005.
541 “the Budd Schulberg of New England”: JC, “The Melancholy of Distance,” in Chekhov and Our Age, ed. James McConkey (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Center for International Studies, 1984), 127.
542 “I can find nothing in Chekov to quote”: JC to Gurganus, Nov. 30 [1976].
542 “I'm taking the bus!”: author int. Frederica Kaven, Feb. 26, 2005.
543 “some true newness to it”: JC to Cowley, Jan. 1 [1977], Newberry.
543 “Cheever's getting out of a seminar”: author int. MZ, Dec. 12, 2004.
543 “none of the attributes of a sexual irregular”: JJC, 343.
544 “difficulty in knowing who the real Max was”: SD int. Dave Smith, Jan. 30, 1985, Swem.
544 “It is a story about a man who allies”: JC to MZ, n.d.
545 Zimmer felt a “slight hardness”: MZ, journal, April 20, 1982, courtesy of MZ.
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO {1977}
547 “Firstly this is a no-shit friendship”: JC to MZ, Feb. 24 [1977].
547 the “taste of [Hope's] lipstick”: JC to MZ [c. Feb. 1977].
547 “That a man of sixty-four”: JC to MZ, Feb. 23 [1977].
547 “I don't want to get into your pants”: JC to MZ, March 1 [1977].
549 “extraordinarily good detail”: Bernard Malamud to JC [c. Dec. 1976], Ransom.
549 “There is some spiritual ungainliness”: JC to Malamud, Dec. 14 [1976], Ransom.
549 didn't “seem to [him] all of a piece”: Cowley to JC, Nov. 17, 1976, Newberry.
549 “Well, I expected the best”: Bellow to JC, Nov. 23, 1976, Swem.
550 “I didn't want them to think I was a rube”: GT, 277.
550 “Three golden retrievers lie”: SC, “A Duet of Cheevers,” Newsweek, March 14, 1974, reprinted in CJC, 121–29.
551 Reviews of Falconer: John Gardner, in Saturday Review of Literature, April 2, 1977, 20–23; R. Z. Sheppard, in Time, Feb. 28, 1977, 79–80; John Leonard, in Harper's, April 1977, 88–89; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, in New York Times, March 3, 1977, 31; Joan Didion, in New York Times Book Review, March 6, 1977, 1, 22–23.
551 Time had “shit on [the book]”: GT, 279.
551 “[Leonard] is sympathetic”: JC to Lehmann-Haupt, Nov. 20 [1976], BU.
552 “It doesn't seem fitting”: JC to Lehmann-Haupt, May 1 [1977], BU.
552 “I have neglected to thank you”: JC to Donadio, Nov. 27 [1977], Swem.
553 she'd “gone completely insane”: JC to Schwartz, April 26 [1978], Swem.
553 “The lesson let us help one another”: HBD, 39.
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE {1977}
560 “Is your father a homosexual drug-addict?