[>] “an America alive”: Fisher, Hart Crane, 86.
[>] Gathering together: E. L. Masters, Across Spoon River, 366–67.
[>] Romany Marie’s: Brooks, John Sloan, 60.
[>] “pulp and quick”: Brooks, The Early Years, 148.
[>] Harriet Monroe: Brooks, The Confident Years, 475.
[>] “deeper beauty of feeling”: Rideout, Sherwood Anderson, 167.
[>] “miraculously set beating”: Brooks, The Early Years, 167.
[>] “only to be quickly wiped out”: E. L. Masters, Across Spoon River, 340.
[>] America’s involvement: Loughery, John Sloan, 227.
[>] “changed the form”: E. L. Masters, Across Spoon River, 381.
[>] deaths of the Masses: Loughery, John Sloan, 244.
[>] “a child on the back”: Levy, Herbert Croly, 262.
[>] “In my country”: Sherwood Anderson, “From Chicago,” Seven Arts (May 1917): 41.
[>] government expansion: Leach, Land of Desire, 177.
[>] Department-store windows: Ibid., 70.
[>] “rolling sculptures”: Miller, Timebends, 45.
[>] “the deadening”: Dabney, Edmund Wilson, 169.
[>] “a kind of violence”: Rideout, Sherwood Anderson, 446.
[>] “old sweet things”: Anderson, Poor White, 341.
[>] the hard-boiled efficiency: Bareuther, “The Hotel Chelsea.”
[>] with Gertrude Stein’s 1915 book: Brooks, The Confident Years, 439–40.
[>] “A shallow hole”: G. Stein, Tender Buttons, 18.
[>] Etelka Graf: “Woman Cuts Off Hand and Jumps 3 Stories,” New York Times, March 6, 1922.
[>] wife of a concert pianist: Coretta Wolford, e-mail to the author, August 21, 2009.
[>] filled it with works: Perlman, Lives, Loves, and Art, 352.
[>] now featuring Wreath: Ibid., 342.
[>] “I owe to him”: Ibid., 363.
[>] husband’s Chelsea studios: Ibid., 364.
[>] create an entire museum: Ibid., 368.
[>] “the great unspanked”: Brooks, John Sloan, 204.
[>] “had come to the end”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 306.
[>] “dead and outworn”: Ibid.
[>] “threatened to outpace”: Brightman, Writing Dangerously, 219–20.
[>] “couldn’t help”: Leach, Land of Desire, 379.
[>] Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, and H. L. Mencken: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 111, 131.
[>] “our bluestocking”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 8.
[>] in part by Sloan’s Masses: Brooks, John Sloan, 96.
[>] messages left at the front desk: Bareuther, “The Hotel Chelsea.”
[>] $38.25 per week: Loughery, John Sloan, 324.
[>] “were shouting”: Stevens and Swan, De Kooning, 121.
[>] “like pushing”: Sloan, Gist of Art, 21.
[>] “I can’t begin”: Stevens and Swan, De Kooning, 124.
[>] “Society, as we have constituted”: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 69.
[>] “because that’s where”: Ibid., 74.
[>] “ripen unpushed”: Ibid., 122.
[>] “It was not so much”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 74.
[>] “half-hick” songs: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 127.
[>] church harmonies: Ibid., 157.
[>] “got on like a couple”: Ibid., 135.
[>] “How much of it”: G. Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, 240.
[>] “whites just hate”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 157.
[>] “they didn’t know”: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 258.
[>] “transfigured American speech”: Ibid., 11.
[>] commercial tunes: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 272.
[>] the “fake folklore”: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 302.
[>] an “unrest cure”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 150.
[>] “not quite sane”: Ibid., 280.
[>] “sending up sparks”: Brooks, The Confident Years, 497.
[>] “fashion experts”: Brooks, John Sloan, 212.
[>] called “psychopathic”: Avis Berman, “Artist as Rebel: John Sloan Versus the Status Quo,” Smithsonian (April 1, 1988): 78.
[>] “picturesque” images: Ibid.
[>] Sloan’s portrait of Dolly: Loughery, John Sloan, 143.
[>] recovered from an abortion: Ibid., 142.
[>] Art Students League: Brooks, John Sloan, 139.
[>] Alexander Calder: Ibid., 143.
[>] petty and soul-killing: Loughery, John Sloan, 328.
[>] technical abilities: Ibid., 312.
[>] “My drawing”: Pollock, American Letters, 18.
[>] “usable past”: V. W. Brooks, “On Creating a Usable Past,” Dial (April 1918).
[>] hiring a secretary: Donald, Look Homeward, 441.
[>] creative solitude: Ibid., 444.
[>] his agent, Elizabeth Nowell: Ibid., 445.
[>] disciplined work routine: Ibid., 441.
[>] “The desire”: Ibid., 183.
[>] “rumbling and roaring”: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 730.
[>] “Goddammit”: Nowell, Thomas Wolfe, 399.
[>] rethinking his ten-thousand-dollar offer: Donald, Look Homeward, 427.
[>] five-page, single-spaced letter: Bruccoli and Bucker, To Loot My Life Clean, 250.
[>] “I have not had”: Ibid., 245.
Edward Aswell of Harper and Brothers: Donald, Look Homeward, 427.
[>] back to the Chelsea: Ibid., 428.
[>] piles of papers: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 355.
[>] offered to match Linscott’s offer: Donald, Look Homeward, 428.
[>] Aswell was so young: Ibid., 432.
[>] “father of his spirit”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 26.
[>] managed to shrug them off: Donald, Look Homeward, 387.
[>] “the solid smack”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 591.
[>] “I Have a Thing to Tell You”: Donald, Look Homeward, 390.
[>] farewell to Germany: Ibid.
[>] “something old”: “I Have a Thing to Tell You,” New Republic (March 1936).
[>] “wherever ruthless men”: Ibid.
[>] visits to the hotel bar: Donald, Look Homeward, 429.
[>] “brother to the workers”: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 579.
[>] In recent weeks: Donald, Look Homeward, 434.
[>] “I caught glimpses”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 685.
[>] “But don’t you know”: Donald, Look Homeward, 434.
[>] never really “go home” again: Ibid.
[>] “America went off”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 370–71.
[>] “the life around me”: Donald, Look Homeward, 434.
[>] expand his novel’s time frame: Ibid., 439.
[>] “The Life and Times”: Ibid., 407.
[>] a story called “K-19”: Ibid., 439.
[>] “horrible human calamity”: Ibid., 261.
[>] “literally starving”: Ibid.
[>] “thousand dreary architectures”: Ibid., 438.
[>] “the million faces”: Wolfe, Of Time and the River, 423.
[>] “hard-mouthed, hard-eyed”: Ibid., 424.
[>] “like a single”: Ibid.
[>] “a strangely empty”: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 698.
[>] “a book of revolt”: Donald, Look Homeward, 440.
[>] “a book of discovery”: Ibid.
[>] “subterranean river”: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 363.
[>] “demoniacal possession”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 20.
[>] “I can’t listen”: Donald, Look Homeward, 441.
[>] Gwen Jassinoff: Ibid., 442.
[>] story farther back: Ibid., 441.
[>] “volubly and without”: E. L. Masters to H. L. Mencken, September 15, 1938, Edgar Lee Masters Collection, HRC.
[>] stammer disappearing: Donald, Look Homeward
, 402.
[>] Pacing back and forth: Ibid., 442.
[>] “drunk with words”: Ibid., 113.
[>] lawyer’s cool mind: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 149.
[>] “this terrible vomit”: Donald, Look Homeward, 186.
[>] “wanting to be the best”: Arthur Miller, The Price, 57.
[>] Hilary traveled to New York: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 36.
[>] Sydney the elevator man: Ibid., 37.
[>] addressed him respectfully: Ibid., 40.
[>] fried cornmeal mush: Ibid., 37.
[>] Masters’s daily swim: Ibid., 42.
[>] “a perfect, red”: Hilary Masters, interview with the author, April 24, 2006.
[>] unbearably painful: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 43.
[>] “For days”: E. L. Masters to Tom Coyne, September 29, 1942; E. L. Masters Collection, HRC.
[>] Alice Davis, a shy book lover: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 128.
[>] catalyst, the way he depended: E. L. Masters, Spoon River, 408.
[>] “Always poor”: Turner, At the Chelsea, 9.
[>] “Then who”: Ibid., 10–11.
[>] “he could smell”: Donald, Look Homeward, 209.
[>] for an escape: Ibid., 446.
[>] “shoot the works”: Ibid., 446–47.
[>] responsibility to society: Ibid., 449.
[>] “the common heart of man”: Ibid.
[>] “You Can’t Go Home Again”: Ibid., 447.
[>] sorting and labeling: Ibid.
[>] “The Web and the Rock”: Ibid.
[>] “a tremendous amount”: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 765.
[>] “a kind of legend”: Donald, Look Homeward, 447.
[>] more truthful and much grander: Ibid.
[>] On May 17, 1938: Ibid., 448.
[>] Chelsea bartender Norman Kleinberg: Ibid.
[>] At 8:30 that evening: Ibid., 449.
[>] with a brain abscess: Ibid., 460.
[>] He died there: Ibid., 463.
[>] “full of the death”: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 132.
[>] Valentine Dudensing Gallery: Naifeh and Smith, Jackson Pollock, 549.
[>] “may well turn”: Solomon, Jackson Pollock, 41.
[>] “a giant’s visiting card”: Brooks, John Sloan, 197.
[>] “the fear”: Solomon, Jackson Pollock, 97.
[>] “every subversive group”: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 53.
[>] “the richest life”: V. Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 290.
[>] “I think it is most”: Jane Bowles to Virgil Thomson (postcard), January 30, 1940, Virgil Thomson Papers, Yale University Music Library.
[>] “What are you doing”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 305.
[>] this time in room 210: Helen Dudar, “It’s Home Sweet Home for Geniuses, Real or Would-Be,” Smithsonian 14, no. 9 (December 1983): 101.
[>] “to convince people”: E. L. Masters to Grace, May 18, 1938, E. L. Masters Collection, HRC.
[>] “We could scarcely”: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 138.
[>] “We are so lost, so naked”: Wolfe, Of Time and the River, 175.
[>] “I believe that we are lost”: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 702. Also, Donald, Look Homeward, x.
4. Howl
[>] vomiting on the carpet: Naifeh and Smith, Jackson Pollock, 471.
[>] had to restrain herself: Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism, 169–70.
[>] European society in exile: Stevens and Swan, De Kooning, 169.
[>] first true surrealist: Breton, Ode to Charles Fourier, 3.
[>] rooms on Houston Street: Solomon, Jackson Pollock, 72.
[>] the dazzling paintings: Ibid., 73.
[>] know other artists: Stevens and Swan, De Kooning, 129.
[>] shoplift art supplies: Naifeh and Smith, Jackson Pollock, 434.
[>] “temple of high art”: Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism, 201.
[>] cut out and frame: Naifeh and Smith, Jackson Pollock, 867.
[>] jukebox music pounded through the walls: Hilary Masters, interview with the author, April 24, 2006.
[>] final bankruptcy: “Syndicate Buys the Chelsea,” New York Sun, October 5, 1942.
[>] more than $570,000: Ibid.
[>] already prompted rumors: Juliette Hamelcourt, “Oral Histories at the Chelsea Hotel: Margit Cain Interviews Juliette Hamelcourt,” audio recording, Juliette Hamelcourt Collection, SAAA.
[>] high-stakes game: Arthur Miller, “The Chelsea Affect,” Granta 78 (Summer 2002).
[>] responded in panic: John Sloan to Don Freeman, August 16, 1943, John Sloan Papers, Delaware Art Museum.
[>] “a mad house”: E. L. Masters to Arthur Mann, July 29, 1943, Edgar Lee Masters Collection, HRC.
[>] “a voice like a buzz saw”: Ibid.
[>] “Nerves somehow”: E. L. Masters to Arthur Mann, April 9, 1943, Edgar Lee Masters Collection, HRC.
[>] collapsed in his room: Hilary Masters interview.
[>] “music-appreciation”: Thomson, The State of Music, 75.
[>] “Opera Guild ladies”: Thomson, Virgil Thomson: A Reader, 194.
[>] accomplished émigré composers: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 327.
[>] all varieties of American performances: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 352.
[>] rumored to have belonged: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 40.
[>] could barely squeeze: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 327.
[>] Peggy Guggenheim’s parties: Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism, 193.
[>] an incongruous presence: Stevens and Swan, De Kooning, 145.
[>] crucial professional connections: Gerald Busby, interview with the author, May 12, 2007.
[>] “the jawbone”: “Percussion Concert,” Life (March 15, 1943): 42.
[>] male brothels: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 355.
[>] “Missouri dinners”: Dominique Nabokov, interview with the author, June 19, 2007.
[>] expert cook, Lee Anna: V. Thomson to Lee Anna (1948), Virgil Thomson Papers, Yale University Music Library.
[>] “We cannot retrace”: Gertrude Stein, The Mother of Us All, Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., New World Records, 1977.
[>] “the division of the spoils”: Tommasini, Virgil Thomson, 403.
[>] the “boys”: Brightman, Writing Dangerously, 151.
[>] several daiquiris: Ibid., 152.
[>] Wilson’s friend Ben Stolberg: Edmund Wilson to Ben Stolberg, January 4, 1938, Benjamin Stolberg Papers, CURBML.
[>] relieved to see Peggy: Brightman, Writing Dangerously, 153.
[>] “funny, squeaky voice”: Ibid., 169.
[>] another visit to Stolberg: Ben Stolberg to Louis Adamic, February 8, 1938, Benjamin Stolberg Papers, CURBML.
[>] baiting the Harvard-educated: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 382.
[>] United Committee: “Pilgrimage for Palestine,” New York Times, April 3, 1948.
[>] Louisiana Story: Thomson, Virgil Thomson, 393.
[>] all but 5 percent: “Conveyances, 222 West 23rd Street, Block 00772, Lot 0064,” New York City Department of Finance, Office of the City Register, January 20, 1947.
[>] persuaded him to take the helm: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, May 15, 2006.
[>] “Imagine, and a bathroom!”: “Living Like a King, DP Here Declares,” New York Times, November 2, 1948.
[>] failed to stand up: Cecile Starr, interview with the author, May 1, 2009.
[>] “civilized discourse”: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 159.
[>] row of praying nuns: Miller, Timebends, 235.
[>] “MONEEY!”: Ibid., 240.
[>] whether Ralph Waldo Emerson: Brightman, Writing Dangerously, 324.
[>] “a hairpin curve”: Miller, Timebends, 234.
[>] Peace Information Center: “‘World Peace’ Plea Is Circulated Here,” New York Times, July 14, 1950.
[>] “disgrace to the nation”: Loughery, John Sloan, 355.
[>]
“plump, graying”: Jane Wickers, interview with the author, July 12, 2009.
[>] helped create an array: Ayn Rand to Ben Stolberg, September 26, 1946, Benjamin Stolberg Papers, CURBML.
[>] checked in to the Chelsea: Brightman, Writing Dangerously, 360.
[>] “a state of monumental”: Ibid., 382.
[>] “cultural ambassadors”: Ibid., 177.
[>] “devour the glue”: Miller, Timebends, 334.
[>] “something else”: Ibid., 198.
[>] fear of “pollution”: Ibid.
[>] a single individual: Ibid., 342.
[>] summer of 1951: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 174–75.
[>] affair with Kazan: Ibid., 181.
[>] “she had taken”: Miller, Timebends, 327.
[>] “the seeming truth-bearer”: Ibid., 521.
[>] “like a force of nature”: Gottfried, Arthur Miller, 182.
[>] “I am the truth”: Ibid., 224.
[>] “fluidity and chance”: Miller, Timebends, 312.
[>] “I was sick”: Ibid., 313.
[>] “the mystery”: Ibid., 312.
[>] reader of D. H. Lawrence: Brinnin, Dylan Thomas, 114.
[>] Dionysian celebrations: Ibid., 97.
[>] “simoons of words”: Dylan Thomas, untitled fragment, n.d., “Thomas, Dylan [Notes],” Berg.
[>] “coming from deep within”: Edith Sitwell, “A New Poet: Achievement of Mr. Dylan Thomas,” London Sunday Times, November 15, 1936.
[>] “own ego”: Boyle, Words That Must Somehow Be Said, 62.
[>] “a thunderbolt”: Linton Weeks, “Literary Voice: Famous Authors Recorded Reading Their Own Words,” Washington Post, May 31, 2002.
[>] Cinema 16: Brinnin, Dylan Thomas, 202.
[>] galvanizing “presentness”: Singh, Think of the Self, 133.
[>] “lumpish” industrial town: Dylan Thomas, untitled fragment, n.d., “Thomas, Dylan [Notes],” Berg.
[>] support of Edith Sitwell: Lycett, Dylan Thomas, 144.
[>] T. S. Eliot: Ferris, Dylan Thomas, 168.
[>] harassment by government: Brinnin, Dylan Thomas, 24.
[>] “I knew America”: Ibid., 3.
[>] “Newfilthy York”: Ferris, Collected Letters, 888.
[>] roster of owners: “Conveyances, 222 West 23rd Street, Block 00772, Lot 0064,” New York City Department of Finance, Office of the City Register, March 4, 1947.
[>] fifth-floor room: Brinnin, Dylan Thomas, 113.
[>] Betty Blossom: “The Dowager of Twenty-Third Street,” Cue, March 8, 1952.
[>] Jake Baker’s passion: Gerald Busby, interview with the author, May 12, 2007.
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