Chester Himes (56 page)
Authors: James Sallis
7. A Street He Could Understand
1
.
Hardboiled America
, p. 16.
2
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 93.
3
.
Stories
, pp. 365, 370â71.
4
. Ibid., p. 369.
5
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 78.
6
. Ibid., p. 84.
7
. Ibid., p. 92.
8
. Ibid., p. 93.
9
. “Chester HimesâThe Ethics of Ambiguity: An Interview with Joseph Sandy Himes, Jr.” in
Xavier Review
, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 1994.
10
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 93.
11
. Ibid., p. 95.
12
. Ibid.
13
. “The Average,”
W. H. Auden: Selected Poems
, ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), p. 105.
14
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Feb. 28, 1947, Yale.
15
. Ibid., Feb. 18, 1947, Yale.
16
. Ibid., May 23, 1947, Yale.
17
. Robert Frost, “The Fear of God,”
Selected Poems
(San Francisco: Rinehart Press, 1963), p. 258.
18
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 99.
19
. Lundquist, p. 13.
20
.
New Masses
, Sept. 9, 1947.
21
.
Atlantic Monthly
, Oct. 1947.
22
.
New York Times Book Review
, Sept. 14, 1947.
23
.
The New Yorker
, Sept. 13, 1947.
24
.
The New Republic
, Oct. 6, 1947.
25
.
Saturday Review of Literature
, Oct. 25, 1947.
26
.
New York Herald Tribune
, Sept. 7, 1947.
27
.
The Life of Langston Hughes
, p. 134.
28
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 101.
29
. Fabre and Margolies, p. 66.
30
.
Conversations
, pp. 39â40.
31
.
The Quality of Hurt
, pp. 101â102.
32
. Ibid., p. 101.
33
. Ibid., p. 103.
8. Going Too Far and Too Far Gone
1
.
Lonely Crusade
, p. 207.
2
. Fabre and Margolies, p. 65.
3
. Muller, pp. 37â38.
4
. Milliken, p. 97.
5
. Ibid., p. 108.
6
. Ibid., p. 112.
7
.
The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition
, p. 177.
8
. Muller, p. 36.
9
.
Lonely Crusade
, p. 129.
10
. Ibid., p. 3.
11
. Ibid., p. 354.
12
. Milliken, p. 99.
13
. “The Well Dressed Man with a Beard,”
The Palm at the End of the Mind
(New York: Vintage, 1990), p. 190.
14
.
Lonely Crusade
, p. 328.
15
. Muller, p. 30.
16
. “I Tried to Be a Communist,”
Atlantic Monthly
, August 1944.
17
.
Lonely Crusade
, p. 85.
18
. Ibid., p. 32.
19
. Ibid., p. 39.
20
. Ibid., p. 40.
21
. Ibid., p. 39.
22
. Ibid., p. 4.
23
. Ibid., p. 7.
24
. Ibid., p. 187.
25
. Ibid., pp. 7, 8, 122.
26
. Ibid., p. 279.
27
. Ibid., p. 28.
28
. Ibid., p. 133.
29
. Ibid., p. 149.
30
. Ibid., p. 60.
31
. Ibid., p. 61.
32
. Ibid., p. 33.
33
. Ibid., pp. 33â34.
34
. Ibid., p. 14.
35
. Ibid., pp. 48â49.
36
.
Invisible Man
, p. 244.
37
.
Lonely Crusade
, p. 361.
38
.
Invisible Man
, p. 347.
39
.
Lonely Crusade, p. 75.
40
. Ibid., p. 70.
41
. Ibid., p. 328.
42
. Ibid., p. 327.
43
. Milliken, p. 5.
9. “I Don't Have That Much Imagination”
1
.
The End of a Primitive
, p. 36.
2
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 117.
3
. Ibid., p. 103.
4
. Ibid.
5
. “The City,”
Collected Poems
(New Jersey: Princeton University Press), 1992; paraphrased.
6
.
Stories
, p. 367 (“Da-Da-Dee”).
7
. Ibid., p. 365.
8
. Ibid., p. 370.
9
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 104.
10
. Ibid., p. 104.
11
.
Conversations
, p. 73.
12
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 104.
13
. Ibid., p. 105.
14
. Ibid.
15
.
The Primitive
, pp. 72â73.
16
. Ibid., pp. 142â143.
17
. Conversation with Norlisha Crawford.
18
.
The Primitive
, pp. 93â94.
19
. Reproduced from
The End of a Primitive
, p. 126.
20
.
The Primitive
, p. 102.
21
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 115.
22
. Ibid., p. 131.
23
. Ibid., p. 74.
24
. Ibid., p. 112.
25
. Ibid., p. 114.
26
.
The Primitive
, pp. 74â75.
27
. Ibid., p. 160.
28
.
Xavier Review
interview.
29
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 23, 1952, Yale.
30
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 133.
31
.
Xavier Review
interview.
32
. Ibid., pp. 13â14.
33
. Ibid., p. 13.
34
.
Conversations
, p. 3.
35
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 135.
10. Literature Will Not Save You
1
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 23, 1952, Yale.
2
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 135.
3
. Ibid., pp. 136, 135.
4
. Ibid., p. 136.
5
.
Lonely Crusade
, p. 91.
6
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 136.
7
.
The Primitive
, p. 6.
8
. Ibid., p. 19.
9
. Ibid., p. 22.
10
. Ibid., p. 23.
11
. Ibid., p. 25.
12
. Ibid., p. 22.
13
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 139.
14
. Ibid., p. 136.
15
. Ibid., p. 137.
16
. Ibid., pp. 137â38.
17
. Ibid., p. 139.
18
.
Invisible Man
, p. 3.
19
. Carl Van Vechten to John A. Williams, Nov. 6, 1962, Yale.
20
. Editors' Note,
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
, p. 8.
21
.
Saturday Review of Literature
, Jan. 17, 1953.
22
.
The New York Times
, Jan. 18, 1953.
23
.
New York Herald Tribune
, Jan. 18, 1953.
24
. Milliken, p. 137.
25
. Ibid., p. 136.
26
. Introduction to
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
, p. 19.
27
.
Book World
, Feb. 20, 1998.
28
.
Publishers Weekly
, Nov. 24, 1997.
29
.
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
, p. 363.
11. European Experience
1
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 161.
2
. Ibid., p. 179.
3
. Ibid., p. 140.
4
. Ibid., p. 144.
5
.
Paris Interzone
, p. 120;
From Harlem to Paris
, p. 216.
6
. Unpublished manuscript, quoted in
From Harlem to Paris
, p. 218.
7
.
From Harlem to Paris
, p. 216.
8
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, Nov. 29, 1962, quoted in
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 252.
9
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 351.
10
. Ibid., p. 162.
11
. Ibid., p. 170.
12
. Ibid., pp. 165, 166.
13
. Ibid., pp. 169, 168.
14
. Ibid., p. 224.
15
. Interview with Fabre, quoted in
From Harlem to Paris
, p. 243.
16
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 185.
17
.
Conversations
, p. 1.
18
. Ibid., p. 3.
19
. Ibid.
20
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 190.
21
. Ibid., p. 191.
22
. Ibid., p. 192.
23
. Ibid., pp. 196â97.
24
. “Everybody's Protest Novel,”
The Price of the Ticket
, p. 33.
25
. Ibid., p. 276 (“Alas, Poor Richard”).
26
. “The Position of the Negro Artist and Intellectual in American Society,” Yale.
27
. Ibid.
28
. Ibid.
29
.
The Price of the Ticket
, p. 278.
30
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 200.
31
.
Conversations
, p. 139.
32
.
The Man Who Cried I Am
, p. 217.
33
. Ibid., p. 218.
34
. Ibid., p. 219.
35
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 208.
36
.
Conversations
, pp. 6â7.
37
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 219.
38
. Ibid., p. 224.
39
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, June 1, 1953, Yale.
40
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 226.
41
. Ibid., p. 233.
42
. Ibid., p. 243.
43
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 14;
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 265.
12. Story-Shaped Life
1
.
Confessions of Zeno
(New York: Vintage Books, 1958), p. 332.
2
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 257.
3
. Ibid., p. 256.
4
. Ibid., p. 260.
5
. Chester Himes to Yves Malartic, Oct. 21, 1953, quoted in Fabre and Margolies, p. 82.
6
. Conversation with Lesley Himes.
7
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 302.
8
.
Pharos and Pharillon
(New York: Knopf, 1962), p. 96; “Half an Hour” from
Collected Poems
(New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992).
9
.
The Quality of Hurt
, p. 286.
10
. Ibid., p. 285.
11
.
Chicago Tribune Review of Books
, Jan. 10, 1954.
12
.
New York Herald Tribune Review of Books
, Jan. 10, 1954;
Library Journal
, Jan. 15, 1954.
13
.
Saturday Review of Literature
, March 13, 1954;
San Francisco Chronicle
, Feb. 7, 1954.
14
.
Catholic World
, April 1954.
15
.
The New York Times
, Jan. 10, 1954.
16
.
The End of a Primitive
, p. 123.
17
.
The Harlem Cycle
, Vol 2, p. xiv.
18
. Introduction to
The Third Generation
(unpaginated).
19
.
Native Sons
, p. 88.
20
.
Xavier Review
interview.
21
. Milliken, p. 139.
22
. Ibid., p. 140.
23
. Ibid., p. 145.
24
.
The Third Generation
, p. 11.
25
. Milliken, p. 147.
26
. Ibid., pp. 151, 154.
27
. Muller, p.61.
28
.
The Third Generation
, pp. 162â63.
29
. Milliken, p. 157.
30
. “The Middle Years,”
Complete Stories 1892â1898
, The Library of America, 1996.
31
. “Nothing Personal,”
The Price of the Ticket
, p. 384.
32
. Milliken, pp. 151, 154.
13. Doubt, Passion, the Madness of Art
1
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 7.
2
. Ibid., pp. 9â10.
3
. Ibid., p. 9.
4
. Ibid., p. 6.
5
. Ibid., p. 5.
6
. Ibid., p. 10.
7
. Ibid., p. 15.
8
. Ibid., p. 18.
9
. Chester Himes to Carl Van Vechten, March 28, 1955.
10
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 25.
11
.
Stories
, p. 191.
12
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 28.
13
.
Run Man Run
, p. 7.
14
.
My Life of Absurdity
, p. 23.
