B007RT1UH4 EBOK (150 page)
Authors: William Gaddis
Schumaker, E. F., 466
Schwartz, Delmore, 411
Schwartz, John, 499
Scott, Hazel, 39
Scott, Mr., 77
Scott, Robert, 171
Seabrook, William, 98-99
Secker & Warburg, 214, 216, 225-26, 241, 383
Seelye, John D., 232, 244-47, 249-50
Selmer, Renate, 444
Serra, Richard, 451
Seven Lively Arts
, 231
Sewell, Camilla, 40, 41
Shakespeare, William, 48, 52, 90, 110, 114-15, 121, 127, 213, 284, 297, 352, 356-57, 377, 439, 471, 474
Shapiro, Karl, 232, 249, 372
Shaw, George Bernard, 45, 482
Sheldon, Sidney, 480-81
Shell, Marc, 423-24
Sherry, John and Dorothy, 323, 330, 334, 376, 398, 403, 407, 531
Shu, Eddie, 386-87, 527
Sidney, Sylvia, 45
Sifton, Elisabeth, 358-59, 410, 433-34, 436, 446
Silberman, Jim, 318
Sillitoe, Alan, 286
Silone, Ignazio, 107, 109
Silverado Savings & Loan, 466
Silverblatt, Michael, 307
Simon & Schuster, 449-50, 460-61, 468, 472, 484, 492, 494, 499, 501, 505, 510-11, 518-19
Sipper, Ralph, 396-97
Skolnik, Irene, 395
Skorzeny, Otto, 253-54
Smith, Constance, 82, 101, 104
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 122
Smith, Worth, 66-67, 96, 98
Snow, C. P., 439
Snow, John, 38, 40, 41, 45, 48, 67, 86, 91, 119, 146
Socarides, Charles, 10, 45-46, 48, 88-89, 204, 242
Socrates, 246, 308
Solataroff, Ted, 303-4
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 358
Sons o’ Fun
, 56
Sontag, Susan, 319
Sophocles, 485, 507-8
South, Eddie, 39
Southern, Terry, 248, 515
Spaeth, Sigrid, 407, 435
Spectator
, 225
Spengler, Oswald, 107, 109
Spenser, Theodore, 46-47, 48, 125
Spinoza, Baruch, 50
Sports Illustrated
, 221
St John-Stevas, Norman, 225-26
Stade, George, 298, 330
Stalin, Joseph, 160
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, 28
Stannard, Martin, 477-78, 481
Stanton, Louis L., 437, 440
“Star-Spangled Banner,” 518
Steenken
Madonna
, 395
Stein, Gertrude, 42, 84-85, 86
Stein, Jean, 407, 442
Steinberg, Saul, 11, 407, 435, 437, 459, 461-62, 465, 480, 483, 524
Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures
, 437, 440, 459, 461-62
Steiner, George, 308-9, 326, 365, 386, 440, 464
Stevens, Roger L., 262
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 102, 104, 182, 221
Stevenson, William, 508-9
Stingl, Nikolaus, 500, 517-18
Stoffel, Jean-Jacques, 170
Strange Woman
,
The
, 61, 65
Summers, Montague, 306
Superman
, 346
Susann, Jacqueline, 272-73, 331
Susskind, David, 297-98
Suter, Clive, 423-24
Svevo, Italo, 333, 363
Swaggart, Jimmy, 410-11
Swanberg, W. A., 342
Swift, Jonathan, 22-23
Swinburne, Algernon, 498-99
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” 178
Tabbi, Joseph, 453-54
“Tani, La,” 184-85
Tanner, Tony, 290-91, 383, 385, 416
Tarnower, Herman, 377
Taylor, Bill, 113-15, 116, 119, 124-25, 127, 132, 178
Taylor, Peter, 426, 463-64
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 366, 496-97
Tenzing Norgay, 239-40
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 36-37, 48, 128
Thielemans, Johan, 312, 337, 352, 367, 410, 419
Thomas, Dylan, 283, 285, 506
Thompson, Hunter S., 447
Thompson, John, 270-71, 291
Thompson, Judith.
See
Gaddis, Judith
Thoreau, Henry David, 216-17, 372, 497
Thorndike, E. L., 454
Thousand and One Nights
, 242
Time
, 80, 220, 245-46, 297, 387
Tintoretto, Il, 116
Titian, 116, 216
Toklas, Alice B., 84
Tolstoy, Leo, 107, 410, 484
Tolstoy, Sonya, 410
Tomlinson, H. M., 159-60
Toole, John Kennedy, 374
Tosca
(Puccini), 204
Towbin, A. Robert, 399
Towers, Robert, 514
Toynbee, Arnold J., 73, 101, 103, 104, 105, 107, 110, 132
Toynbee, Philip, 251
Trask, Mrs., 46, 47
Traver, Robert, 236-37
Treasure Island
, 221
Trollope, Anthony, 159, 346-47
Truman, Harry S., 158
Tudor Pole, David, 185-91, 194-95, 199, 209, 228, 230, 408
Twain, Mark, 121, 306, 344, 428, 439, 472
Überhoff, Thomas, 517
Ulansey, David, 491
Ulysses
(film), 263
Under the Volcano
(film), 406-7
Union Minière, 307
United States Information Agency, 314, 402-3, 429, 431
United States Information Service, 189, 196
Updike, John, 382, 411, 483, 501-2, 519-20
Uris, Leon, 236-37
Uxbridge, Henry Paget, Earl of, 177
Vail, David, 132
van Meegeren, Han, 363
Van Strum, Stevens, 255
Vandercook, John W., 17
Vanity Fair
, 436, 446
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 425
Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 199
Vega, Lope de, 45
Velásquez, Diego, 116
Vermeer, Jan, 363
Veronese, Paolo, 116
Viking Penguin, 358, 362, 395, 405, 408, 410, 413, 415, 433-34, 436, 446, 476, 479-80, 484, 494, 500
Villa, Pancho, 102, 104
Village Voice
, 369, 374, 473, 476
Virgil, 515
Voice of America
, 203-4
Voltaire, 196, 270, 449
Wagner, Richard, 204, 306, 366, 378, 443
Wall Street Journal
, 359-60
Wallace, Alfred A., 69
Wallace, Irving, 507-8
Warburg, Fredric, 214-16, 221, 241, 244, 383-84
Ward, F. Champion, 390
Ward, Robert, 51
Ware, Francis, 36, 38, 40-41, 42
Washington Post
, 498-99
Watson, Thomas J., 454
Waugh, Evelyn, 10, 85, 119, 122, 253, 297, 329, 362, 477-78, 481, 508
Way, Ida Williams, 25, 33, 34, 42, 49, 87, 91, 102, 104, 148, 186, 198, 514-15
Way, Robert Dickinson, 268
Weisenburger, Steven, 364-66, 369-70, 387, 401-2
Weissenberg, Sigismund, 176
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 177, 218, 250
Wells, H. G., 96, 98, 171, 242-43
Wertheim, Larry M., 516
Wescott, Glenway, 94-95, 98
West, Nathanael, 107
West, Rebecca, 95, 98
Wharton, Edith, 270, 436
Whately, Richard, 306-7
Wheatland, Richard, 153-54, 166, 170, 174-75, 178, 180, 181
Wiebel, George, 154
Wiener, Norbert, 337-38, 453
Wiesel, Torsten, 442
Wilder, Thornton, 271, 309, 342, 435, 530
Williams, Dr., 36, 37
Williams, Ernest, 106
Williams, Jan, 56
Williams, Joy, 320-21, 332, 528
Williams, Margaret, 9, 120, 122, 124, 125, 128, 137, 142-43, 144-45, 146-57, 158-60, 163, 166, 168, 171-72, 176, 178, 179, 181, 183, 185, 190, 531
Williams, Samuel E., 49, 268
Williams, Tennessee, 118, 121, 137
Wilson, Colin, 243-44, 247
“Windows of the World,” 327, 329
Winebaum, Bernard, 80, 82, 124, 137, 140, 142-43, 145, 146, 470
Winters, Jonathan, 517
Winterset
, 42-43
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw, 217
Woiwode, Larry, 310, 386
Wolfe, Peter, 520
Wolfe, Thomas, 89-90
Wood, Douglas, 230-31, 330, 466-67
Woodburn, John and Mary, 71-72, 114-15, 119, 121, 132, 167, 168, 205, 208
Woods (neighbors), 403, 407
Woolf, Virginia, 403-4
Wouk, Herman, 245-46, 247
Wright, Richard, 41
Wright, Stephen, 488-89
Wurlitzer, Rudolph, 279
Wylie, Andrew, 515, 519
Yeats, William Butler, 283, 382, 518-19
Yellin, Herb, 343-44
Yen Hui, 121
Young, Robert, 23
Zanuck, Darryl F., 258
Ziff, Larzer, 447-48
Zola, Émile, 342
Zweitausendeins, 521
W
ILLIAM
G
ADDIS
(1922–98) stands among the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. The winner of two National Book Awards (for
J R
[1975] and
A Frolic of His Own
[1994]), he wrote five novels during his lifetime, including
Carpenter’s Gothic
(1985),
Agap
ē
Agape
(published posthumously in 2002), and his early masterpiece
The Recognitions
(1955). He is loved and admired for his stylistic innovations, his unforgettable characters, his pervasive humor, and the breadth of his intellect and vision.
S
TEVEN
M
OORE
is the author/editor of several books and essays on William Gaddis, and has written about many of Gaddis’s acquaintances (Alan Ansen, Chandler Brossard, Jack Green, David Markson, Sheri Martinelli). He is also the author of a two-volume study,
The Novel: An Alternative History
.
Letters © 2013 by the Estate of William Gaddis
Editorial matter © 2013 by Steven Moore
Afterword © 2013 by Sarah Gaddis
First edition, 2013
Some of these letters first appeared in
Profils Americaines
,
Pynchon Notes
,
New York Times
,
Kanreki: A Tribute to Allen Ginsburg
, and
Conjunctions: 59, Colloquy
.
The photographs on the following pages are reproduced courtesy of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries: 14, 17 (left), 27, 54, 75, 111, 138, 164, 197, 198, 220, 229, 238, 252, 259, 261, 398 (top), 430 (bottom), 445. Martin Dworkin’s photographs are reproduced courtesy of Bernard Looks. All other uncredited photos are reproduced courtesy of Sarah and Matthew Gaddis.
A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
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Cover art: Julian Schnabel,
Portrait of William Gaddis
(1987). Oil, plates, bondo on wood, 60” x 48”. Courtesy of the artist.
Printed on permanent/durable acid-free paper and bound in the United States of America
The Recogntions (1955)
J R
(1975)
Carpenter’s Gothic
(1985)
A Frolic of His Own (1994)
Agap
ē
Agape (2002)
The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings (2002)