Cheever_ A Life - Blake Bailey [434]
594 “I like to remember”: JC to Holmes, April 4, 1979, courtesy of Ned Rorem.
594 “That the pleasure I take in Jim's company”: JC to Rorem, March 3, 1979.
594 “I think I am not particularly susceptible”: JC to Holmes, April 12, 1979, courtesy of Ned Rorem.
594 “large orgasims” [sic]: JC to Holmes, Feb. 28, 1979, ibid.
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX {1979}
596 “this is the first time … view of the park”: quoted in Henry Allen, “John Cheever: Capturing the Splendors of Suburbia,” Washington Post, Oct. 8, 1979, A1, B13.
596 “Some people seem to have a gift”: quoted in John Firth, “Talking with John Cheever,” Saturday Review, April 2, 1977, 23.
597 “he developed another smile for cameras”: HBD, 37.
597 “There are people who consider me”: CJC, 243.
598 “I've never been any great shakes”: JC to McLoone [c. Jan. 1967], Georgetown University Library.
598 “knock it off about that poetry stuff “: author int. Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan, Feb. 19, 2005.
599 “basking in the reflected light”: Spear to Litvinov, March 9, 1979, courtesy of Pamela Spear Goff.
600 “boisterous, leggy, badly bred dog”: HBD, 147.
600 “When [s]he wakes me, late at night”: ibid., 148.
600 “gritty enclave … Sing Sing”: Martha Smilgis, “The Dark Moments of His Life Rival—and Perhaps Inspire—John Cheever's Stories,” People, April 23, 1979, 78–79.
600 “Paradise on earth”: Ossining Citizen Register, April 23, 1979.
601 “I think … about the town I came from”: JC to Denney [c. March 1935?], Dartmouth.
601 “the village kind of life”: Susan Merrill, “The Everyday Ossining Haunts of John Cheever,” Patent Trader (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), March 14, 1986, B12–13, 34.
602 “Unidentified Flying Object”: LJC, 323.
602 “I couldn't wait when I'd see him, I'd run out”: Merrill, “Everyday Ossining Haunts,” B13.
602 speaking of “spiritual things”: SD int. John Bukovksy, July 5, 1984, Swem.
603 “That I will endorse as you please”: Stephen Sandy to SD, Oct. 8 [1984], Swem.
603 “I'm terribly sorry,” said Cheever: author int. Martin Amsel, April 24, 2004.
604 “I think we do not know one another”: JJC, viii.
604 “He had two great fears about me”: LJC, 327.
604 “I didn't quite get it”: JJC, ix.
604 a kind of “shorthand”: LJC, 328.
605 “If the water was right and the tide ebbing”: JC to MZ [c. June 1979].
607 Susan “sometimes had a flicker of wondering”: HBD, 209.
609 “If you would write your fucking homework”: JC to MZ, Sept. 27 [1979].
609 reminded Cheever “a little of Beckett”: JC to MZ [c. Aug. 1977?].
609 “It reads like a streak”: WM to JC, Aug. 22, 1962, NYPL-MSS.
610 “It was written by a guy out fishing”: e-mail from MZ to author, Dec. 18, 2004.
610 “I hope Max Zimmer”: McGrath to JC, March 6, 1980, NYPL-MSS.
610 “notes scribbled … shopping list”: Michiko Kakutani, “In a Cheever-Like Setting, John Cheever Gets MacDowell Medal,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 1979, C7.
610 “The day before yesterday”: [MacDowell] Colony Newsletter 9, no. 1 (Fall 1979).
611 “Sex is very important to me”: SD int. Leonard, Oct. 23, 1984, Swem.
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN {1979–1980}
612 “God have mercy on us all”: John Koster, “John Cheever Reads, FDU Listens,” Bergen Record, Sept. 28, 1978, C8.
612 “Any confrontation between”: Kay Gardella, “Cheever: The Agonies of Suburbia,” New York Daily News, Oct. 21, 1979.
612 hard at work on “another bulky book”: Jesse Kornbluth, “The Cheever Chronicle,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 21, 1979, 102.
613 “That was the year everybody went to China”: JC, “The Night Mummy Got the Wrong Mink Coat,” New Yorker, April 21, 1980, 35.
613 “This cookbook is a pack of lies!”: author int. Janet Maslin, Feb. 10, 2005.
615 “We dined with the Ettlingers”: GT, 156.
615 “You know, you have this whole other life”: author int. Joseph Caldwell, April 5, 2005.
617 “I love you very much and my endeavors”: JC to MZ, June 11 [1980].
617 “might as well have spent … fishing”: MZ, journal [c. summer 1981], courtesy of MZ.
618 “in which suppuration, corruption and decay”: JC to