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.January 1962.“I have learned what it is”: Sheila Yates to RY, January 17, 1962.“a hell of a lot of trouble”: Sheila Yates to RY, April 14, 1962.“rather exaggerated emptiness”: RY to Beury, November 26, 1961.“the two terrible traps”: Ploughshares, 70.“special type of writer”: Int.John Frankenheimer.“The Movie Deal that seemed”: RY to Beury, November 26, 1961.“no whiff of a contract”: RY to Miller Williams, January 20, 1961.“Mr.Yates, how can I make sure”: Charles Leap to RY, January 2, 1961.“the book was a shattering”: Lawrence to RY, January 30, 1962.Yates … Wallant … commiserate: Int.Lee Jacobus.Background of the 1962 NBA controversy: Gay Talese, “Critics Hear Tale of Novel’s Prize,” New York Times, March 15, 1962.“a beautiful writer”: Ploughshares, 77.“a pathetic lush”: Letter to author from Carolyn Gaiser.“Want it? Want it?”: Clark, “The Best I Can Wish You,” 36.“Just to save you anxiety”: Int.Grace Schulman.“I spent the first week”: RY to the Schulmans, April 2, 1962.“Do you think Hollywood”: Sheila Yates to RY, c.March 1962.“Baby, this is Crazyville”: RY to Kessler, April 23, 1962.“the drug I’ve been needling”: Jerry Schulman to RY, April 5, 1962.“He’s probably some semi-literate”: RY to Schulmans, April 16, 1962.Reviews of Eleven Kinds of Loneliness: Peter Buitenhuis, New York Times Book Review, March 25, 1962; Richard Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, April 1, 1962; Hollis Alpert, Saturday Review of Literature, April 21, 1962; J.C.Pine, Library Journal, April 15, 1962.A translated version of Cabau’s review of EKL in the French weekly Express was mailed to RY on October 24, 1963, by Monica McCall: “You are now a pet of the French critics,” she wrote.“stands at the pinnacle”: Jonathan Penner, New Republic, November 4, 1978.“the mere mention of its title”: Robert Towers, New York Times Book Review, November 1, 1981, 3.“he believes this light to be a lie”: CSRY, XX.“economics of publishing”: Lawrence to McCall, April 16, 1962.“They’re there, and now all”: Lawrence to RY, April 24, 1962.“a kind of literary snow-blindness”: Stories for the Sixties, ed.RY (New York: Bantam, 1963), vii.“quite impressed”: Rust Hills to RY, April 17, 1962.“Maybe the little bastard”: RY to the Schulmans, May 18, 1962.“It was almost as if he knew”: Ploughshares, 75.“At the rate Yates is going”: Malcolm Stuart to McCall, May 25, 1962, BU-MM.“discovering endless problems”: RY to the Schulmans, May 18, 1962.“Don’t think I’m neglecting”: RY to Robert Parker, May 13, 1962.The birthplace and maiden name of Catherine Downing are found on her Social Security SS-5 form; other details about Downing were cobbled together from epistolary evidence in RY’s papers as well as interviews with Frances Doel and others.“You didn’t leave anything”: Int.Monica Yates Shapiro.“a whole new avalanche”: UT.“Good novels—let’s say great novels”: Ploughshares, 72.“delivering great globs”: William Styron’s “Lie Down in Darkness”: A Screenplay (Watertown, Mass: Ploughshares, 1985).“At a distance in time”: Sheila Yates to RY, April 14, 1962.“old, reliable tranquility”: Sheila Yates to RY, c.March 1962.“I will never—and I mean”: Sheila Yates to RY, April 14, 1962.“I should, damn it, have known”: John Ciardi to RY, September 10, 1962.“ugly fucking battle-ax”: Int.Grace Schulman.“You can take my word”: Ciardi to RY, September 13, 1962.“After it’s over I wince”: Quoted in Jamison, Touched with Fire, 32.predicted he’d kill himself: Marilyn Renzelman to RY, February 20, 1963.“Any hope that we can work”: Sheila Yates to RY, June 10, 1963.Chapter Nine Uncertain Times: 1962–1964“revolutionized the treatment”: New York Times, February 14, 1983, D10.“This is what keeps your old daddy”: Int.Geoffrey Clark.Frankenheimer had assured: Frankenheimer to RY, October 2, 1962.“ninety-eight per cent sure”: Cassill to RY, October 9, 1962.“Miss Wood’s agent decided”: RY to Miller Williams, March 14, 1964.“Frankenheimer’s mills”: Styron to RY, March 14, 1963.“I’m working hard as hell”: RY to Cassill, February 7, 1963.“spasm of writing”: UT.Background on Ruth’s marriage: Int.Fred and Peter Rodgers, Ruth Rodgers Ward, Sheila Yates.“mentally ill, incompetent”: Cassill to RY, April 3, 1963.The meeting was a fiasco: “Kennedy and Baldwin: The Gulf,” Newsweek, June 3, 1963, 19.“turn them into words with a snap”: RYAW, 43.Prettyman called … Styron: Int.E.Barrett Prettyman Jr., Styron.“I don’t even know if I like”: UT.“short, clipped sentences”: Ibid.“We’re living in very uncertain”: Venant, “A Fresh Twist in the Road,” sec.6, p.8.“School is out, girls”: UT.“more of an honorarium kind of thing”: UT.“I couldn’t resist”: RY to Miller Williams, March 14, 1964.“Dick composed the most memorable”: RYAW, 43.“He used RFK as a ventriloquist’s”: Int.Kurt Vonnegut.“Dick was respectful”: Int.Jack Rosenthal.“Sorry I’ve been so elusive”: UT; Int.Wendy Sears Grassi.“The FBI wheels”: Sheila Yates to RY, June 10, 1963.“a fine-looking young man”: UT.“hunched and impassioned”: Ibid.“Dick, I recall feeling”: John A.Williams to RY, November 5, 1970.“If my questioning you”: RY to Williams, c.early 1971.“There! I wrote that!”: Int.Janis Knorr.“White people of whatever kind”: Robert F.Kennedy: Collected Speeches, ed.Edwin O.Guthman and C.Richard Allen (New York: Viking Penguin, 1993), 98–100.“a little heavy in the leg.”: The phrase was used to describe Sears’s fictional alter ego Holly Parsons in UT.“it hurt to listen”: Int.Joseph Mohbat.as a matter of principle it rankled: Int.Noreen McGuire.“When I’m writing, I’m writing”: Int.Jack Rosenthal.a stock anecdote in Yates’s repertoire: Int.E.Barrett Prettyman Jr., Carolyn Gaiser.“After searching for months”: “Periscope,” Newsweek, September 16, 1963, 16.Was this Richard Yates the writer: Int.Dan Wakefield.“suave, expensive and quiet restaurant”: RY to DeWitt Henry, November 21, 1972.Yates shook hands … ran out of cigarettes: Int.Wendy Sears Grassi, Joseph Mohbat.“and just about that time the president”: RY to Miller Williams, March 14, 1964.“Richard Yates, the novelist … did not like”: Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1978), 876.“Never look for political ideas”: UT notes.“glad it happened”: Wendy Sears recounts this exchange in her letter to RY, c.June 1964.“this makes [my husband]”: Ruth Rodgers to RY, August 14, 1964 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]