John Cheever (62 page)

T
RIP TO
R
USSIA
,
B
RIGADIER
REVIEWS:
Orville Prescott, “John Cheever's Comedy and Dismay,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 14 October 1964, p. 43; interview MC, 6 June 1983; interview Vassily Aksyonov, 23 January 1986; interview William H. Luers, 22 August 1985; JC to Josephine Herbst, 14 December 1964; Tanya Litvinov to SD, 31 January 1984 and 15 February 1984; JC to Frederick Bracher, 12 February 1965.

Y
EVTUSHENKO
, U
PDIKES:
John Updike to SD, 25 June 1984 and 18 July 1984; interview MC, 20 October 1984; Robert Cromie, interview with JC, B
OOK
B
EAT
, May 1973; Grant, “John Cheever: The Art,” p. 46; JC to Paul Moor, 30 December 1984; JC to John Updike, 1963; JC to Malcolm Cowley, 1963; John Updike, P
ICKED-UP
P
IECES
(New York, 1976), pp. 5–6; John Updike, memorial tribute to JC, 23 June 1982; Mary Weatherall to SD, 17 December 1984.

L
AST DAYS IN
R
USSIA:
JC, typescript 5 and typescript 21; interview Eugene and Clayre Thaw, 15 July 1984; interview Raymond Carver, 23 October 1984.

INWARD

M
OOR
, R
USSIAN CORRESPONDENCE:
Paul Moor to SD, 20 November 1984 and 30 November 1984; JC to Paul Moor, 3 February 1965; JC to Laurens Schwartz, 2 December 1975; JC to William Maxwell, 1965; Lee S. Strickland (CIA) to SD, 10 June 1986.

W
ASHINGTON
, B
ROWN
, C
HICAGO
, T
RAINS:
JC to Frederick Bracher, 23 February 1965; James Dickey to SD, 1 January 1985; interview Richard Stern, 23 April 1975; JC to Richard Stern, 1964 and 1965; Mrs. Donald H. Farquharson to SD, 19 January 1985 and 5 April 1985; interview Ben Cheever, 19 October 1984.

H
OWELLS
, W
HITE
H
OUSE
, D
ENTISTRY:
Glenway Wescott, report on T
HE
W
APSHOT
S
CANDAL
, American Academy and Institute files; JC to William Maxwell, 1965; JC to Richard Stern, 1965; Ralph Ellison, presentation of the Howells Medal, and JC, acceptance of the Howells Medal, 19 May 1965, American Academy and Institute files; “Cheever, John,” C
URRENT
B
IOGRAPHY
, 1975, p. 76; interview Ben Cheever and Janet Maslin, 8 November 1983; JC to Frederick Exley, 1965 (two letters).

“G
EOMETRY
,” MLA: JC to Frederick Exley, 4 October 1965 and late fall 1965; JC to Frederick Bracher, 5 October 1965, late fall 1965, and 4 January 1966; interview William Maxwell, 9 April 1985; JC, typescript 21; Hennig Cohen to SD, 15 December 1984; interview Raphael Rudnik, 18 January 1985; JC to Richard Stern, late 1965; Richard Stern, “Report from the MLA,” N
EW
Y
ORK
R
EVIEW OF
B
OOKS
, 17 February 1966, pp. 26–28; Richard Stern to SD, 13 September 1984; interview Richard Stern, 23 April 1985; interview Norman Mailer, 29 March 1985; Hilary Mills, M
AILER:
A B
IOGRAPHY
(New York, 1982), p. 314; Norman Mailer, C
ANNIBALS AND
C
HRISTIANS
(New York, 1966), pp. 95–103; interview Robert F. Lucid, 2 April 1985.

P
OLITICAL RADICALISM OF CHILDREN:
JC quoted in Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 142; JC to William Maxwell, 1965; JC to Josephine Herbst, May 1965; JC to Tanya Litvinov, 23 May 1966.

F
RIDAY
C
LUB:
Interview Tom Glazer, 27 October 1983; interview Arthur Spear, 19 July 1983; interview MC, 6 June 1983; Betsy Brown, “The Friday Club, A Cheever Salon,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
(Westchester section), 27 June 1982, pp. 1, 8; JC to Barrett Clark, 19 January 196__.

“S
WIMMER
”
FILM
, R
OREM:
Interview Frank Perry, 6 June 1985; Vincent Canby, “Lancaster Takes Suburban Swim,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 16 July 1966; JC to Richard Stern, 17 August 1966; JC to Frederick Bracher, 15 September 1966; interview Ned Rorem, 20 September 1984.

T
ROUBLES WITH MARRIAGE, LIQUOR
, D
R
. H
AYS:
JC, typescript 21; JC, journal, Brandeis library; JC to Frederick Bracher, September 1965; JC to Richard Stern, 18 February 1966; JC to Robert Gottlieb, 21 August 1968; interview Dr. David S. Hays, 14 January 1985; interview MC, 2 June 1984; JC to MC, summer 1966; Anatole Broyard, “Fiction That Lies About Its Dreams,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 12 January 1986.

S
USIE AND
R
OB'S WEDDING:
Interview Alan Williams, 18 September 1984; interview Robert Cowley, 21 June 1984; JC to William Maxwell, 1967; JC, typescript 21; interview Sally Swope, 8 November 1983; “Susan Cheever Wed to Robert Cowley,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 7 May 1967, p. 93; Malcolm Cowley, “Novelist's Life,” p. 7.

L
OREN
, W
ARD
, P
ALAMOUNTAIN
, A
MES:
JC, journal, Brandeis library; interview Carl Dolmetsch, 25 May 1984; JC to Frederick Bracher, 14 September 1967; JC, “Sophia, Sophia, Sophia,” S
ATURDAY
E
VENING
P
OST
, 21 October 1967, pp. 32–35; interview Aileen Ward, 23 October 1984; interview Anne Palamountain, 17 July 1985; interview Nellie Shannon, 17 July 1985; JC, “Elizabeth Ames,” minutes of the meeting of the corporation of Yaddo, 7 September 1968; JC, “The Hostess of Yaddo,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 8 May 1977, pp. 3, 34–35.

P
ROSTATITIS
, T
HANKSGIVING:
Interview Dr. Raymond Mutter, 22 June 1984; JC to Dr. Raymond Mutter, 10 November 1967; JC, journal, Brandeis library; JC, “Thanks, Too, for Memories,” pp. C1, C6; JC to Natalie Robins, 3 December 196__; interview Christopher Lehmann-Haupt and Natalie Robins, 22 October 1984; Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Authors' Creative Ways to Get Out of Writing,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
, 6 June 1985, p. C22.

B
EN
'
S ARREST
, K
ING
'
S DEATH:
Interview Ben Cheever, 19 October 1984; JC to Josephine Herbst, early 1968; Dana Gioia et al., interview with JC, 23 January 1976, pp. 17–18; JC, journal, Brandeis library.

DOUBLING

B
OURGEOIS ARTIST DIVISION:
Interview Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, 26 July 1984; interview Molly Malone Cook, 2 May 1985; interview Aline Benjamin, 5 July 1984; JC, typescript 21; interview Tom Glazer, 3 June 1984; interview Mrs. Wallace Boyd, 29 April 1985; Father George W. Hunt, J
OHN
C
HEEVER
: T
HE
H
OBGOBLIN
C
OMPANY OF
L
OVE
(Grand Rapids, Mich., 1983), pp. 176–77; JC to Dennis Coates, 29 June 1974.

H
OPE
L
ANGE AFFAIR:
Interview Virginia Rice Kahn, 5 June 1985; interview Edward Newhouse, 5 June 1984; interview Dr. J. William Silverberg, 18 June 1984; JC, journal, Brandeis library; interview Hope Lange, 24 October 1984.

J
OURNAL CONTENTS, SELF-LOATHING:
James Valhouli, interview with JC, 2 December 1977; Elizabeth Hardwick, “Cheever, or the Ambiguities,” N
EW
Y
ORK
R
EVIEW OF
B
OOKS
, 20 December 1984, p. 3; Richard Stern to SD, 11 May 1985; JC, B
ULLET
P
ARK
notes, Brandeis library; JC, journal, Brandeis library; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 67; interview John Leonard, 23 October 1984; interview Federico Cheever, 6 April 1985; interview Max Zimmer, 19 July 1984; interview Dr. Raymond Mutter, 22 June 1984; interview Frances Lindley, 17 September 1984; JC, typescript 21; JC to Arthur Spear, October 1968; JC to Frederick Exley, 1968.

S
TERN
, S
TYRON
, E
XLEY
, N
OBEL
, BOM: Interview Richard Stern, 23 April 1985; JC to Josephine Herbst, May 1968; JC to Frederick Exley, 1968 and 14 May 1969; Cheever file, American Academy and Institute; Weaver, “Recollections,” p. 8; JC, journal, Brandeis library.

I
RELAND:
JC to William Maxwell, 9 August 1968 and late August 1968; JC to Josephine Herbst, 21 August 1968; interview John and Mary Dirks, 16 July 1984; Mary Dirks to SD, 6 August 1984.

S
WITCH TO
K
NOPF, SPENDING:
Interview Candida Donadio, 15 June 1984; JC to Frances Lindley, 17 September 1968; JC to Robert Gottlieb, September 1968; interview Connie Bessie, 19 July 1984; interview Robert Cowley, 21 June 1984; interviews MC, 7 November 1983 and 20 October 1984; JC to Frederick Exley, December 1968.

D
UALITY OF VISION:
Samuel Coale, “Cheever and Hawthorne: The Romancer's Art,” C
RITICAL
E
SSAYS ON
J
OHN
C
HEEVER
, ed. Robert G. Collins (Boston, 1982), pp. 193–209; John W. Crowley, “John Cheever and the Ancient Light of New England,” N
EW
E
NGLAND
Q
UARTERLY
, June 1983, pp. 270–71; (John Updike), “Notes and Comment,” N
EW
Y
ORKER
, 12 July 1982, pp. 27–28; John Gardner, “Witchcraft in Bullet Park,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 24 October 1971, p. 2.

B
ULLET
P
ARK:
TECHNIQUE, ENDING:
JC, journal, Brandeis library; JC, B
ULLET
P
ARK
notes, Brandeis library; Robert Gottlieb to JC, 5 September 1968; JC to Robert Gottlieb, Labor Day 1968 and 8 November 1968; Gardner, “Witchcraft,” p. 2; Lee, “Ovid,” p. 72.

B
ULLET
P
ARK
,
RELIGION:
Lee, “Ovid,” p. 68; Mircea Eliade, T
HE
S
ACRED AND THE
P
ROFANE
(New York, 1969), pp. 11–12; JC, journal, Brandeis library; Dana Gioia, “Meeting Mr. Cheever,” pp. 425–26.

D
IVIDED SELVES
: H
AMMER
, N
AILLES
, T
ONY:
JC, journal, Brandeis library; JC, B
ULLET
P
ARK
notes, Brandeis library; tape recording, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt interview with JC, February 1969; Leslie Aldridge, “Having a Drink with Cheever,” N
EW
Y
ORK
, 28 April 1969, p. 49; Lynne Waldeland, “John Cheever's B
ULLET
P
ARK;
A Key to His Thought and Art,” C
RITICAL
E
SSAYS
, pp. 266–68; Coates, dissertation, pp. 171, 187.

R
EACTION TO
B
ULLET
P
ARK:
JC to Marion Morehouse, 9 April 1969; Aldridge, “Having a Drink,” pp. 48–50; Benjamin DeMott, “A grand gatherum of some late 20th-century American weirdos,” N
EW
Y
ORK
T
IMES
B
OOK
R
EVIEW
, 27 April 1969, pp. 1, 40–41; Anatole Broyard, “You Wouldn't Believe It,” N
EW
R
EPUBLIC
, 26 April 1969, pp. 36–37; Stephen C. Moore, “A Text Already ‘Deconstructed': B
ULLET
P
ARK
”(paper given at Modern Language Association meeting, 1985); interview Philip Roth, 18 July 1985.

D
EPRESSION
, D
R
. S
ILVERBERG:
Stephen Becker to SD, 30 April 1985; JC to William Maxwell, 6 March 1969; JC to John Updike, 13 May 1969; JC and Federico Cheever quoted in Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, p. 155; interview Dr. J. William Silverberg, 18 June 1984; interview John and Mary Dirks, 16 July 1984; JC to Allan Gurganus, 11 February 1977.

BOTTOMING

D
RUNKENNESS
, P
ARTIES:
Interview Robert Cowley, 21 June 1984; interview John and Mary Dirks, 16 July 1984; interview Leonard Field, 18 September 1984; Robert Cromie, interview with JC, B
OOK
B
EAT
, May 1973; JC to Malcolm Cowley, spring 1971; Malcolm Cowley to JC, 14 May 1971; Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 182–83; interview MC, 26 July 1984; interview Curtis Harnack and Hortense Calisher, 17 September 1984; interview Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark, 10 July 1984; interview Gray Smith, 11 September 1984; interview John Hersey, 18 October 1984; interview Francis Steegmuller and Shirley Hazzard, 17 January 1985; Shirley Hazzard to SD, 13 January 1987; James O'Hara, “John Cheever,” D
ICTIONARY OF
L
ITERARY
B
IOGRAPHY
Y
EARBOOK
1982, ed. Richard Ziegeld (Detroit: Gale Research, 1983), p. 132; Mary Dirks to—, 10 September 1972; interview Tom Glazer, 27 October 1983.

M
ARRIAGE TENSIONS, INFIDELITY:
JC quoted in Susan Cheever, H
OME
B
EFORE
D
ARK
, pp. 182–83; interview Sandra Hochman, 17 January 1985; JC, typescript 21; interview Dr. J. William Silverberg, 18 June 1984; interview Frederick Exley, 9 July 1984; interview MC, 12 July 1984.