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Acknowledgments

First, I want to thank Sarah and Matthew Gaddis for the opportunity to edit this collection, a dream I’ve had for the last thirty years. Gaddis’s second wife Judith gave her blessings and was enormously helpful with both letters and information. Thanks also to the Andrew Wylie Agency’s Adam Eaglin, Scott Moyers, and especially Carrie Smith for facilitating the project, and Jeremy M. Davies of Dalkey Archive.

Second, my thanks to all the individuals, like Julia Murphy, who generously shared their letters, and especially those—like James Cappio and David Madden—who took the trouble to supply contextual material. And to Anne Posega and especially Sarah Schnuriger of Olin Library’s Special Collections department at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, where Gaddis’s archives are held. I am especially grateful for a travel grant from the library that allowed me to spend an eye-opening week there in May 2011.

I also wish to thank the staffs of the following libraries for supplying letters: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library; Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; Stanford University Library, Stanford, CA; Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries; Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester; and Vassar College Library. I would also like to thank the rare-book dealers Lame Duck Books, Ralph Sipper Books, and Chandler Gordon (The Captain’s Bookshelf) for sharing their merchandise.

Particular thanks go to Julian Schnabel for allowing us to reproduce his portrait of Gaddis on the cover, a painting that figures in some of the letters, and to professional photographers Miriam Berkley and Mellon Tytell.

And for help with various details, I am indebted to Crystal Alberts (who performed valuable preservation work on the Gaddis letters when they arrived at Washington University), Stephen Burn, Nicholas Fargnoli, Gerry Fenge, Mike Gladstone, Mark Hale, Victoria Harding, Odile Hellier, Brian Lamere, Mark Lewis, Bernard Looks, James M. Morris, Allen Peacock, Julián Ríos, Richard Scaramelli, Michael Silverblatt, Emmett Stinson, Joseph Tabbi, A. Robert Towbin, Edward Tudor Pole, Alexander Waugh, and Greg Werge.

Index

A., Nancy, 114, 119, 120-21

Abad, Davey, 21-22, 77-78

Abádi-Nagy, Zoltán, 420-21, 439

Abish, Walter, 402, 445, 478

Adair, Robert K., 523

Adams, Alice, 60, 65, 426

Adams, Joseph Quincey, 40

Adams, Mrs., 23, 28, 29

Adler, Ellen, 407

Afternoon of a Faun
(Debussy), 38, 44, 45

Alain-Fournier, 473

Alamo Bay
, 373, 412-13

Alberts, Crystal, 137, 158

Albin Michel, Éditions, 419-20, 449-50

Aldridge, John W., 304-5, 307, 386-87, 402, 417, 440, 474-75, 498

Alexander, Clare, 494, 499

Alexander, William V., 399-400

Alfaguara, 405-6, 419-20

Allen, Fred, 242, 282

Altizer, Thomas J. J., 279-80

Altman, Robert, 346

American Academy (Rome), 408-10

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 382, 406, 413, 415, 462, 465, 479-80, 486, 528

American Jurisprudence
, 422, 432, 447, 459, 469, 481, 490

American Magazine
, 168-69, 172

Anaxagoras, 212

“Anchored!” 189-90

Anders, Jaroslaw, 368, 375

Anderson, Bob, 295-96

Anderson, Charles, 417

Anderson, Sherwood, 109

Andrews, Anthony, 406-7

Anselm, Saint, 73

Ansen, Alan, 80, 211-12, 390-92, 405

Ant
æ
us
, 286, 290

Antheil, George, 122-23

Anthony, Saint, 146-47

Arias, Arnulfo, 77-78

Arias, Roberto, 77-78

Arias, Tony, 78

Aristotle, 159

Arnold, Matthew, 144, 146

Arthur Murray Dance Studios, 41

“As Time Goes By,” 42, 52

Asher, Aaron, 240-41, 244, 272, 281, 284, 285, 289, 314, 318, 371, 383, 446

Asher, Linda, 432, 441-42

Atlantic Monthly
, 44, 84, 148, 166, 168-69, 171, 176, 186, 188, 234

Auchinloss, Louis, 435-37, 440-41, 446, 472, 498-99, 528

Auden, W. H., 48-49, 94, 97, 137, 140, 211, 322

Augustine, Saint, 233-34

Averill, Mary, 283, 285

Avon Books, 286, 291, 303, 371, 377, 383, 385, 394-95, 399

B., G. S., 83, 146

Babbage, Charles, 454

Bach, Dr., 37

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 122, 202

Baedeker’s Spain and Portugal
, 112-13, 115, 133, 205

Ba
ł
azy, Teresa, 352-53, 367, 404-5

Ballantine Books, 303-4

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 44, 45

Balzac, Honoré de, 74, 76

Bantam Books, 303

Bard College, 311, 317, 320, 325, 340, 341-43, 347-50, 352, 363, 411, 415-16, 429, 440

Barile, Susan, 465, 475

Barish, Keith, 460-61

Barnes, Djuna, 254-55, 263

Barth, John, 319, 349, 366

Barthelme, Donald, 298, 310, 319, 445

Bartholomew, Saint, 172

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 456

Baudelaire, Charles, 142-43

Bauer, Jerry, 291

Baumgarten, Bernice, 199, 208, 274

Bayerlein, Fritz, 253-54

Bazelon, Irwin, 513-14

BBD&O, 162-63

Beame, Abraham, 291-92

Bean, Jacob, 57, 79, 82, 86, 114, 120, 124, 125, 133, 135, 140, 141, 142-43, 144-45, 146, 155, 178, 502

Beardsley, Aubrey, 267

Beckett, Samuel, 362, 518-19

Beebe, William, 63, 65

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 142

Begos, Kevin, 370

Bell, Clive, 395

Belloc, Hilaire, 135-36, 181

Bellow, Saul, 310, 326, 479-80

Benjamin, Walter, 442-43, 453, 454, 477

Bennington College, 341

Benny Goodman Story
, 290

Benstock, Bernard, 255, 262-63, 278, 291, 339

Bentley, E. C., 177

Bergson, Henri, 118, 121

Berkeley, George, 201

Berkeley Gazette
, 232, 245, 247

Berkley, Miriam, 415, 520-21

Berne, Eric, 482

Bernhard, Thomas, 510

Bernhardt, Sarah, 487-88

Bible, 66, 70, 96, 392; New Testament, 91, 93, 95-96, 101, 104, 132, 134, 293, 306, 447, 474, 488, 520

Black, Katie Sue, 223

Black, Patricia Thompson.
See
Gaddis, Pat

Blackmur, R. P., 108-9

Bloom, Claire, 482

Blowup
, 263, 265

Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
, 432-33, 437

Blumentritt, Günther, 253-54

Bolero
(Ravel), 38

Bond, Emma, 49, 155, 181

Boni, Wim, 189

Book of Fate
,
The
, 91

Book-of-the-Month Club, 304, 384-85

Boomsma, Graa, 419

Borchardt, Georges and Anne, 358-59

Borchgrasse, Baroness, 128

Borrow, George, 301

Bosch, Hieronymus, 122-23, 279, 339, 394, 494

Boston Globe
, 434-35, 498-99

Botsford, Keith, 231

Botstein, Leon, 311, 429

Bourgois, Christian, 420, 430

Bourjaily, Vance, 319

Brace, Donald, 372

Bradley, William L., 274

Brandel, Marc, 308-9, 376

Breslin, Jimmy, 260

Brideshead Revisited
(series), 407

Brieant, Charles L., 447-48, 460

Britton, Burt, 374, 387-88, 397

Britton, Miss, 221

Broadwater, Bowden, 310

Brontë, Charlotte, 404, 411, 525

Brossard, Chandler, 69, 82, 101, 102, 169, 391, 401-2, 527

Brown, Andreas, 475-76

Brown, Arthur Kerr, 434

Brown, Brad, 23, 25

Brown, Harry Joe, Jr., 258, 458

Browning, Robert, 144, 146, 178, 213, 215, 216, 517

Brownson, Robert Charles, 338-39

Broyard, Anatole, 44, 364, 366, 387-88, 391

Buchanan, Cynthia, 323, 330, 334, 349, 355

Buchwald v. Paramount
, 460-61, 517

“Buddy Bolton’s Blues,” 487

Bülow, Claus and Sunny von, 377

Bunyan, John, 107, 109

Burroughs, William S., 248, 342, 438-39, 439, 505-6

Bursey, Jeff, 514

Burton, Isabel and Sir Richard, 481

Burton, Richard, 350

Burton, Robert, 239-40

Butler, Joseph, 103-4, 107

Butler, Samuel, 347, 354, 358, 422, 431-32, 481, 502

Butterfield, Isabel and John, 508

Byrne, J. Ross, 21-23, 28, 29, 31, 32

Cahill Gordon & Reindel, 460-61, 469, 471

Cain, James M., 109

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 118, 121, 401

Calisher, Hortense, 310, 319

Calkins, Mary, 201-2

Callahan (Harvard classmate), 44, 45-46

Campbell, Jean, 51, 54, 55, 56, 60

Campbell, Jeanne, 51

Campbell, Mathilda, Duchess of Argyll, 171-72, 342-43

Campbell, Roy, 475

Camus, Albert, 248

Caponegro, Mary, 320

Capote, Truman, 137, 140, 272

Cappio, James, 447-48, 450, 458, 460, 471, 488

Cardozo, Benjamin, 422-23, 447, 484, 490

Carlyle, Thomas, 205

Carmen
(Bizet), 41

Carnahan, William, 496

Carnegie, Dale, 157-58, 203-4

Carney, William, 393, 399

Carter, W. Hodding, 426

Carver, Catharine, 206, 208, 266, 282, 386, 411

Carver, Raymond, 475

Casablanca
, 52

Castor, George, 26, 31, 33, 44, 47

Cervantes, Miguel de, 309

Chambers, Judith, 453, 477-78, 527-28

Chandler, David, 386

Chandler, Raymond,

Charles V, 130, 131

Chaplin, Charlie, 163, 165

Chase, Carlton, 170

Chase, James Hadley, 157-58

“Chasin’ with Chase,” 44

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 464

Chekhov, Anton, 46, 500

Chénetier, Marc, 463

Cherney, Marvin, 467-68

Cholodenko, Marc, 420, 479

Chopin, Frédéric, 317

Christophe, Henri, 17

Chryssipus, 213

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 68, 511

City Lights
, 165-66

Claiborne, Cornelia P., 83

Cleveland Plain Dealer
, 300-301, 365

Clancy, Tom, 514

Cliff, Henry, 31, 33, 39

Close, Robert S., 167, 169, 171-72

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 502

Cohen, Hy, 281, 289

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 46

Collyer, Langley and Homer, 251

Coming to America
, 461, 517

Commentary
, 246, 273, 424

Commonweal
, 231-32, 353

Comnes, Gregory, 442-43, 453, 477-79, 501-2, 521, 526, 527-28

Comnes, Judith.
See
Chambers, Judith

Compton Burnett, Ivy, 378

Comrade X
, 69

Confucius, 121

Congdon, Don, 95, 98, 119-20, 125, 168-69, 171, 175, 178

Conley, Peter, 298, 301, 308-9, 349, 359, 373

Connolly, Cyril, 104, 121, 247-48, 328

Conrad, Joseph, 221, 329, 397, 490-91

Contemporary Literature
, 262-63

Contratto, Andrew W., 19-20

Coover, Robert, 488-89

Cornell Daily Sun
, 301

Cornell Review
, 332

Corpus Juris Secumdum
, 422-23, 481

Cortázar, Julio, 265, 454

Costello, Kathleen, 155, 198

Cottle, Thomas J., 487

Cowley, Malcolm, 250, 386-87

Cox, June R., 388

Cozzens, James Gould, 208, 273

Creeley, Robert, 283, 285, 494-95

Crews, Mary, 227, 268

Cronin, A. J., 386-87

Cross, Hartley, 101

Crowley, Aleister, 239-40

Cry “Havoc
,
”
47

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 486-87

Culhane, John, 412-13

cummings, e. e., 323, 414

“Cumparsita, La,” 184-85

Cunningham, Rodger, 454-55

Cuomo, Mario, 456, 494

D
æ
dalus
, 486

Daily Express
, 421

Daily Mail
, 132, 421

Dalai Lama, 350-51

Dalkey Archive Press, 455, 478, 528

Dallas
, 440

Dalton, Jack, 251, 262-63

D’Amato, Al, 393, 396, 399

Damon, Mrs., 119, 121

Dante Alighieri, 118, 208, 210

Darwin, Charles, 263

Davis, Elmer, 196, 203-4

Davis, L. J., 321-22

Davis, Miles, 456

Davison, Robert Ten Broeck (Bill), 59, 60-61, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70-72, 74, 502

de Kay, Ormonde, 13, 75, 122, 166-67, 168, 171, 519-20

de la Guardia, Arturo, 77, 180-81

De Mills, Dr., 31

de Vree, Freddy, 367

Dead End
, 42-43

Decter, Midge, 424

Degas, Edgar, 237

Degnan, June Oppen, 246-47

Dekker, Thomas, 262

DeLillo, Don, 451-52, 523

Denham, Alice, 258, 267

Deutsch, Andre, Ltd, 419-20, 433

Deval, Jacques, 39

Devlin, John, 383, 385

Dewey, John, 343

Dewey, Thomas, 166, 503

Díaz, Juan (Juancho), 77-78, 80, 91, 99, 116, 124, 125, 129, 161, 163, 169

Dibdin, Charles, 171-72

Dick, C. Matthews, 50

Dickens, Charles, 50

Dickstein, Morris, 279

Didion, Joan, 320, 331, 404, 414, 508-9

Doctorow, E. L., 310

Doctorow, Helen, 472

Dolbier, Maurice, 245-46, 310-11, 386-87

Domien, Maria Eugenia, 100, 102

Donadio, Candida, 248, 281, 284, 285-86, 295, 299, 303-4, 310-11, 313-14, 317-19, 380, 399, 410, 411, 446, 473, 500, 511, 513, 515

Dos Passos, John, 139

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 36-37, 40, 90-92, 107, 109, 119, 297, 475, 477-78, 489-90

Douglas, Ann, 369-70

Douglas, Norman, 120, 122, 130, 395

Doyle, Charles Hugo, 205

Drayton, Michael, 140-41

Dreiser, Theodore, 342, 452

Dryden, John, 147

Dulles, Allen, 293

Dulles, John Foster, 293

Duncan, Isadora, 443

Dunne, J. W., 210

Dunne, John Gregory, 404

Durante, Jimmy, 93, 97

Dutton Review
, 274-75, 278, 341

Dworkin, Martin, 203-4, 291, 311, 359, 407, 441, 515, 531

Dwyer, Miko, 486-87

Dyslexia
, 271

Eagan, Charles, 198

Earthquake
, 346

Eastman Kodak, 267-69, 275, 311, 322, 359, 440

Eckley, Grace, 297

Eddington, Sir Arthur, 464

Eddy, Mary Baker, 306-7

Eder, Richard, 499

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 253-54, 293

Eliot, T. S., 10, 62, 94, 97, 98, 109, 113, 115, 117, 119, 121, 124, 133, 135, 139, 140, 144, 178, 180-81, 186, 196, 209, 214-15, 245-46, 272, 278, 283, 293, 294, 297, 310, 339, 349-50, 352, 366, 376;
Four Quartets
, 7, 10, 117-18, 121, 131, 132, 136-37, 144-46, 158-60, 165-66, 176, 184-85, 191-93, 194-95, 199, 209, 218, 260, 337, 382, 446, 469, 483, 492, 497

Elkin, Joan, 345

Elkin, Stanley, 340-41, 344-45, 348, 355-56, 358, 362, 509, 513-14, 515

Ellison, Ralph, 279, 330

Elman, Mr., 44

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 113, 405, 424, 497, 523

Emmart, A. D., 166-67

Emmart, Barney, 67, 117, 124, 128, 130, 134, 135, 137, 139, 142, 146, 150, 156, 163, 165, 180, 185-86, 199, 209-11, 213, 227, 230, 309, 458, 470, 502, 515

Encyclop
æ
dia Britannica
, 195

Enders, Thomas, 393 Epictetus, 67-68

Erickson, Steve, 476

Esquire
, 35, 169, 232, 234, 414, 441-42, 476

Europe
, 463

Evans, Walker, 119, 121, 127

Exley, Fred, 362-63, 398

Express
,
L’
, 291 Faber & Faber, 209, 240

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 371

Faulkner, Robert “BuBu,” 142

Faulkner, William, 7, 266, 464

Faust theme, 94, 297, 299

Feeney, Mark, 434-35

Félix, Brigitte, 463

Fellows, Jay, 369-70, 402

“Feste Burg ist Unser Gott, Ein,” 201-2

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 73

Figaro
(newspaper), 291

Figueres, José, 99, 100

Finlay, Mr., 44

Finney, Albert, 406

Firbank, Ronald, 438

Firestone, Harvey, 202

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 276, 291-92

Fitzpatrick, Mr., 178

Flaubert, Gustave, 89, 493, 496, 502