Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [433]
576 “[spoke] only with a British accent”: Richard F. Shepard, “WNET to Do Plays by US Novelists,” New York Times, Feb. 8, 1979, C13.
576 “I'm really working on the WNET show”: LJC, 342.
576 writers who were also “acceptable” candidates: Herbert Mitgang, “Saul Bellow Taking Laureateship Lightly,” New York Times, Nov. 14, 1976, 73.
577 protested as “outrageous”: Cowley to Members of the Nominating Committee for the Gold Medal in the Short Story, Feb. 5, 1978, Newberry.
577 “spread the honors around”: Richard Wilbur to Cowley, Feb. 20, 1978, Newberry.
577 “The difficulty may be with Bill Maxwell”: JC to Cowley, March 1, 1978, Newberry.
577 “This has remained somewhat on my conscience”: WM to SD, April 10, 1985, Swem.
578 “ ‘I recall … that at the time of my first novel’ “: Jesse Kornbluth, “The Cheever Chronicle,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 21, 1979, 29, 102.
580 “John Cheever, the flesh and blood person”: Dennis Edward Coates, “The Novels of John Cheever,” unpublished dissertation, Duke University, 1977, 11.
580 “My congratulations on having completed”: JC to Coates, May 16, 1978.
581 “Oh he's totally discredited”: SD int. R. G. Collins, Sept. 27, 1985, Swem.
581 “To have been expelled from Thayer Academy”: JJC, 348.
581 “revolting invasion of publicity”: Israel Shenker, “Solzhenitsyn, in Harvard Speech, Terms West Weak and Cowardly,” New York Times, June 9, 1978, A8.
581 “Aleksandr brought up the rear”: LJC, 344.
582 “Your letter was so circumspect”: JC to MZ, March 13, 1978.
582 “I don't really know you at all”: LJC, 342.
582 “Robert Anderson wrote Tea and Sympathy“: Laurens Schwartz to SD, March 26, 1986, Swem.
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE {1978–1979}
583 “Why do you want to do that?”: author int. Gottlieb, June 16, 2004.
584 “totally forgotten some of them”: Paul Gray, “Inescapable Conclusions,” Time, Oct. 16, 1978, 125.
584 “The parturition of a writer”: SJC, vii.
585 Reviews of The Stories of John Cheever: Paul Gray, in Time, Oct. 16, 1978, 122, 125; William McPherson, in Washington Post Book World, Oct. 22, 1978, E1, 6; John Leonard, in New York Times, Nov. 7, 1978, 43; Anne Tyler, in New Republic, Nov. 4, 1978, 45–47; John Irving, in Saturday Review, Sept. 30, 1978, 44–46; John Gardner, in Chicago Tribune Book World, Oct. 22, 1978, 1; Robert Towers in New York Review of Books, Nov. 9, 1978, 3–4; Richard Locke, in New York Times Book Review, Dec. 3, 1978, 3, 78.
586 “At the risk of sounding pious”: Diane White, “John Cheever: Finding Classic Themes in Ordinary Life,” Boston Globe, Nov. 28, 1978, 21.
587 “Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Vincent Astor”: JC to Weaver, Oct. 22 [1978]; this sentence was deleted from the letter published in GT, 294–95.
587 “bask[ing] … in that fragrance of beaver”: LJC, 352.
587 “an easy time talking to women”: SD int. Lauren Bacall, Jan. 17, 1985, Swem.
587 “I think Betty [Bacall] has got me mixed up”: JC to SC, Jan. 13 [1979], Berg.
587 Your mother … garp should have won: JC to SC, Feb. 2 [1979], Berg.
588 “wiping the steam off a windowpane”: JC to MZ, Nov. 1 [1978].
588 “I suspect that my tastes “: JC to grants committee, Jan. 15, 1979, Academy.
588 “I don't mean style; I mean voice”: JC to Roth, Sept. 17 [1977], LC.
589 “A book comes, of which I'm the subject”: JJC, 355.
589 “We have never sat at the kitchen table”: GT, 298.
589 “He is a most judicious”: JC to SC, Dec. 31 [1978], Berg.
589 “My enthusiasm for you three is boundless”: JC to SC, Sept. 6 [1978], Berg.
591 “I never showed my father anything”: HBD, 214–15.
591 “We have both agreed that fiction”: JC, “My Daughter, the Novelist,” New York, April 7, 1980, 53.
591 “You finished the marathon?”: LJC, 357.
592 “a day for athleticesthetic celebration”: Jim Morse, “A Happy Twist to Cheever Chronicle,” Boston Herald American, April 18, 1979.
592 “I never believed in my childhood days”: Paul Williams, “John Cheever: Adding Luster to the Stream,” Patriot Ledger, April 18, 1979.
592 “[T]his has involved”: JC to MZ [c. May 1979].
593 “On Friday I did an ABC tape”: JC to MZ, Jan. 6, 1979.
593 Rorem was “the