Edward Mendelson, interviews by Natalie Robins, April 2012, June 2012, Oct. 2012, Feb. 2013.
10. OH BE BRAVE
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 2, Folder 11, 1938–43; Box 4, Folder 5, undated note, also Norman Mailer quote: March 1959–July 1961.
DTP: Box 4, Folder 4, Marianne Moore to DT April 17, 1950; Box 4, Folder 4, Karl A. Menninger, MD, to DT, April 14 and April, 28, 1950; Box 4, Folder 4, DT to Norman Mailer, June 18, 1959, and Norman Mailer to DT, June 30, 1959; Box 11, Folder 1, S. F. Rubin to DT, June 26, 1951; Box 11, Folder 1, Monroe Engel to DT, date noted only as 1950, with no further details; Box 12, Folder 1, DT to Look magazine; Box 16, Folder 4, DT to Bettye Rubin Turitto, April 16, 1976; Box 19, Folder 3, Draft of “This Is a Chapter About Money”; Box 20, Folder 3, draft of “Education of a Woman”; Box 22, Folder 5, A. Alvarez, review of DT’s Claremont Essays; Box 51, Folder 2, oral history, Steven Donadio; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Lerman, The Grand Surprise.
Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture (Boston: Beacon, 1955).
Lionel Trilling, The Opposing Self (New York: Viking, 1955).
Peter Manso, Mailer (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), 287.
Margaret Mead, Male and Female (New York: William Morrow, 1949).
John Rodden, Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999).
Morris Dickstein, foreword to Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999).
Michael Rosenthal, interview by Natalie Robins, April 24, 2012 (re: foyer of Trilling’s apartment on Claremont Avenue).
Stephen Koch, interview by Natalie Robins, Nov. 12, 2013.
11. GUILT MAKES US HUMAN
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 22, Folder 11, 1938–53; Box 5, Folder 3, 1973.
DTP: Box 4, Folder 4, Bernard Malamud to DT, Dec. 16, 1954, and April 30, 1955; Box 4, Folder 4, Norman Mailer to DT, Dec. 8, 1960; Box 4, Folder 5, John O’Hara to DT, Jan. 24, 1957; Box 10, Folder 1, DT to Peter Shaw, re: DT’s Oppenheimer essay; Box 11, Folder 1, Pearl Kluger, Executive Secretary of American Committee for Cultural Freedom, to DT, May 23, 1951; Box 11, Folder 2, DT to Sidney Hook, Oct. 15, 1955; Box 14, Folder 5, list of all members of “The Family” by S. A. Longstaff; Box 16, Folder 5, DT to Professor Arthur Edelstein, Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University, Nov. 12, 1976; Box 20, Folder 2, DT notes for “X11, 32–33”; Box 31, Folder 1, DT to Cary Grayson, Carnegie Corporation of New York, July 12, 1956; Box 36, Folder 23, minutes for Planning Conference ACCF, March 1952; Box 37, Folder 14, “Draft of a Statement of Policy by the American Committee for Cultural Freedom; Box 38, Folder 11, DT, interview by Alan Kaufman, Jewish Frontier, May-June 1998; Box 60, Folder 1, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Alexander Bloom, Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 283 (re: Rahv’s politics).
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 182 (re: Committee for Cultural Freedom).
Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends (New York: Free Press, 1999).
Manso, Mailer, 264.
William Barrett, “The Authentic Lionel Trilling,” Commentary, Feb. 1, 1982.
Elizabeth Janeway, “In Earthquake Country,” New York Times, Jan. 3, 1960.
Delmore Schwartz, “The Duchess’ Red Shoes,” Partisan Review, Jan.-Feb. 1953.
Gilbert Seldes, review of But We Were Born Free, Saturday Review, Feb. 13, 1954.
Dawn B. Sova, Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds (New York: Facts on File, 2006).
Norman Podhoretz, interview by Natalie Robins, Oct. 25, 2011.
Michael Rosenthal, interview by Natalie Robins, April 24, 2012.
Elisabeth Sifton, interview by Natalie Robins, May 8, 2013.
12. WEAVING
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 3, Folder 7, 1952–55; Box 4, Folder 7, March–August 1960.
DTP: Box 3, Folder 2, Arnold Beichman to DT, Jan. 23, 1955, also DT to Arnold Beichman, Oct. 19, 1960, and Feb. 29, 1968; Box 4, Folder 2, Allen Ginsberg to DT, Jan. 15, 1976; Box 4, Folder 3, “For Publication by DT”; Box 4, Folder 5, DT to William Phillips (in this letter DT does not change a typo—she typed “1869” when she clearly meant 1969); Box 4, Folder 6, DT to David Riesman, Jan. 18, 1955, and David Riesman to DT, May 29, 1949; Box 4, Folder 6, DT to Evie and David Riesman, May 21, 1949, also David Riesman to DT and LT, Feb. 16, 1953, and David Riesman to DT, Feb. 16, 1955; Box 4, Folder 7, Ginsberg to DT, May 7, 1959; Box 5, Folder 2, DT to LT, May 26, 1962; Box 6, Folder 5, DT to William Phillips, Jan. 2, 1980; Box 11, Folder2, Marjorie Harley to DT, July 13, 1955; Box 11, Folder 2, various correspondence between Francis Brown and DT—March 21, 28, 31, 1955; Box 12, Folder 1, Leon Skir to DT, Dec. 13, 1959; Box 12, Folder 3, DT to Editors of Encounter, Sept. 1967; Box 20, Folder 2, DT notes for a memoir; Box 36, Folder 1, DT lecture: “The Self as Subject,” Feb. 23, 1983; Box 36, Folder 9, statement read by DT to Board of Directors of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Jan. 10, 1961; Box 36, Folder 23, American Committee for Cultural Freedom list of suggestions for members of the National Advisory Board, April 12, 1956; Box 37, Folder14, DT to James T. Farrell, Oct. 3, 1956; Box 51, Folder 2, oral history, Steven Donadio.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Bloom, Prodigal Sons, 261 (re: Norman Mailer at Waldorf conference).
Podhoretz, Ex-Friends, 23, 74, 96.
Diana Trilling, “The Other Night at Columbia: A Report,” in Claremont Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964).
Diana Trilling, ed., The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, 1; also “Letter to a Young Critic,” xiv–xlii.
Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 95.
Patricia Bosworth, complete transcript of Paris Review interview of DT, 29.
Lis Harris, “Di and Li,” New Yorker, Sept. 23, 1993.
Terry Teachout, “Going Highbrow at the CIA,” Commentary, March 2008.
Diana Trilling, “The Case for American Women,” Look, March 3, 1959.
Diana Trilling, “A Symbol of Reason,” review of A Train of Powder, by Rebecca West, New York Times Book Review, March 20, 1955.
Lina Vlaviovos, telephone interview by Natalie Robins, Nov. 13, 2013.
Lore Dickstein and Morris Dickstein, interview by Natalie Robins, Spring 2013.
13. SUBVERSIVE SEX
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 3, Folder 7, 1952–55; Box 4, Folders 5 and 7.
DTP: Box 6, Folder 4, DT to Daphne Merkin, re: carrot soup recipe, August 3, 1982 (proper cooking of corn is from a conversation NR had with DT); Box 8, Folder 5, DT to Bea Crystal (Gertrude Himmelfarb), July 5. 1994; Box 9, Folder 3, DT to Carl Rollyson, May 28, 1991; Box 12, Folder 1, Evan Thomas to DT, 1960; Box 22, Folder 5, DT interview by John Horder, Scotsman, May 29, 1965; Box 49, Folder 5, oral history, Steven Marcus; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson; Box 60, folder 1, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Diana Trilling: The Beginning of the Journey, 372.
Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England (New York: Basic Books, 1964), xvi–xvii.
Laskin, The Partisans, 22.
Lionel Trilling, The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000), 354.
Diana Trilling, interview by Patricia Bosworth, Paris Review, Winter 1993.
Kathleen Hill, “Reading with Diana,” Yale Review, July 1998.
Thomas Mallon, “Transfigured,” New Yorker, April 5, 2010.
Evan Osnos, “Meet Dr. Freud,” New Yorker, Jan. 10, 2011.
Lionel Trilling, “Snake Story,” Kenyon Review, Fall 2011.
Brom Anderson, interview by Natalie Robins, May and June 2012.
Carroll Beichman, telephone interviews by Natalie Robins, April 19, 20, 23, May 4, June 21, 2012.
Gray Foy, telephone interview by Natalie Robins, April 12, 2012.
Michael Rosenthal, interview by Natalie Robins, April 24, 2012.
14. A LIMITED KIND OF CELEBRITY
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 4, Folder 3; Box 5, Folder 5 (undated letter from LT to DT).
DTP: Box 2, Folder 12, Thelma Anderson to DT, Jan. 8, 1965; Box 2, Folder 12, DT to Quentin Anderson, March 19, 1965; Box 3, Folder3, DT to Bill Beutel, Feb. 13, 1968, and Bill Beutel to DT, May 21, 1968; Box 3, Folder 5, DT to Elsa Grossman, May 9, 1965; Box 4, Folder 2, DT to Elinor Hays, correspondence, 1964–65; Box 4, Folder 3, DT to Melvin Lasky, May 21, 1962, also DT to Irving Kristol, May 25, 1967; Box 4, Folder 4, Norman Mailer to DT, August 30 (year not on letter but most likely c. 1962–64), also Norman Mailer to DT, Feb. 25, 1965; Box 4, Folder 5, correspondence between DT and William Phillips, winter 1965; Box 5, Folder 1, Robert Silvers to DT, Feb. 1962, Jan. 20, 1964, March 26, 1964, and April 14, 1967, also DT to Robert Silvers, May 4, 1967; Box 5, Folder 2, C. P. Snow to DT Feb. 4, 1963; Box 12, Folder 2, DT to Edward Morrow, May 18, 1961; Box 12, Folder 3, DT to J. M. Rizzo, Collier Books, Sept. 28, 1962; Box 12, Folder 5, DT to Linnie W. Schafer, Administrative Assistant Inter-University Committee on the Superior Student, April 10, 1964; Box 13, Folder 2, DT to Dr. Reider, Oct. 4, 1965, and Dr. Reider to DT, Oct. 6, 1965; Box 13, Folder 1, G. S. Fraser to DT, March 13, 1965; Box 14, Folder 1, Gertrude Himmelfarb to DT, June 4, 1965; Box 22, Folder 5, Stanley Edgar Hyman, review of Claremont Essays in New York Review of Books, April 16, 1964; Box 22, Folder 5, review of Claremont Essays in Saturday Review, March 14, 1964, also review by Arnold Beichman of Claremont Essays, also G. M. Pepper, a review of Claremont Essays in National Review, April 21, 1964; Box 32, Folder 10, “The Image of Woman in Contemporary Literature,” by DT; Box 33, Folder 6, Byron Dobell to DT, July 23, 1963; Box 35, Folder 14, “The Riddle of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by DT; Box 36, Folder 6, notes and draft of “A Visit to Camelot,” by DT; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson; Box 60, Folder 2, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Gerald Clarke, Capote: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010).
Carolyn Heilbrun, When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
Lerman, The Grand Surprise, 503 (re: Jim Trilling’s cello).
Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013), 354.
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 350, also 374 (Robert Lowell) and 335 (Alfred Karin).
Diana Trilling, “The Moral Radicalism of Norman Mailer,” in Claremont Essays, 175–202.
Podhoretz, Ex-Friends, 102n.
Manso, Mailer, 350.
Alfred Kazin’s America: Critical and Personal Writings, edited and with an introduction by Ted Solotaroff (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 175.
Larry Andrews, “The Wisdom of Our Elders: Honors Discussions—The Superior Student,” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council (Fall-Winter 2011).
Richard Bernstein, obituary of Melvin Lasky, New York Times, May 22, 2004.
Martin Gross, letter to the editor, New York Review of Books, May 28, 1964.
Stanley Edgar Hyman, review of Claremont Essays, New York Review of Books, April 16, 1964.
Robert Mazzocco, review of Beyond Culture, New York Review of Books, Dec. 9, 1965.
Diana Trilling, “A Visit to Camelot,” New Yorker, June 2, 1997.
Edward Mendelson, interview by Natalie Robins, May 2, 2012.
15. AT A TABLE
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 4, Folder 12; Box 5, Folder 1, 1970–74.
DTP: Box 3, Folder 4, Midge Decter to DT August 6, 1968; Box 4, Folder 1, DT to Mrs. Beaujous, n.d.; Box 4, Folder 2, DT to Elinor Hays, n.d.; Box 5, Folder 1, DT to William Shawn, August 19, 1968; Box 12, Folder 2, DT to Editor of the New York Times, Feb. 1, 1961; Box 14, Folder 1, DT to New York Review of Books, Sept. 20, 1920 (marked by DT as “Letter Not Sent”); Box 21, Folder 2, DT to William Goodman, Harcourt, March 18, 1971, also Sept. 14, 1972, Oct. 6, 1972, Oct. 16, 1972; Box 22, Folder 2, “On the Politicalizing of Culture,” by DT; Box 32, Folder 18, “Letter from Abroad: An American Looks at British TV,” by DT; Box 34, Folder 3, notes; Box 34, Folder 8, DT to Commentary; Box 60, Folder1, “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Paul Fussell, introduction to Reviewing the Forties, by Diana Trilling.
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 132.
Diana Trilling, “On the Steps of Low Library,” in We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977).
Diana Trilling et al., “Germany Through American Eyes,” Atlantic, May1967.
Lewis P. Simpson, “Imagining Our Time: The Vocation of Diana Trilling,” Explorations: The Twentieth Century (blog), Oct. 4, 2012, https://explorations20th.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/imagining-our-time-the-vocation-of-diana-trilling/.
Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, interview by Natalie Robins, Oct. 25, 2011; also an email exchange between Natalie Robins and Midge Decter, July 11, 2012, re: DT and Dachau Concentration Camp.
16. JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
LTP: Box 4, Folder 6, journals; Box 5, Folder 1, notes 1970–71 (“going to be so nice to be dead”).
DTP: Box 3, Folder 3, DT to Aline and Isaiah Berlin, Jan. 10, 1977; Box 4, Folder 2, DT to Lillian Hellman, June 1952 and assorted letters; Box 4, Folder 4, Norman Mailer to DT, Sept. 9, 1977, and DT to Norman Mailer, May 22, 1977, August 2, 1977, and Dec. 22, 1977; Box 8, Folder 2, Robert Gorham Davis to DT, June 25, 1986; Box 10, Folder 2, Nanine Joseph to DT, March 13, 1940; Box 15, Folder 4, DT to Mortimer Ostow, Dec. 23, 1975; Box 15, Folder 5, DT to Riesmans, Jan. 12, 1976, also DT to David R. Jacoby, Jan. 26, 1976; Box16, Folder 3, DT to Jacques [sic] Trilling, Jan. 12, 1976, also DT to Emma Lou Benignus, Jan. 15, 1976; Box 16, Folder 5, DT to Pearl Bell, Dec. 2, 1976; Box 30, Folder 9, tentative outlines for a series of articles on the American female; Box 31, Folder 20, “Feminism and Women’s Liberation: Continuity or Conflict?” a lecture by DT; Box 35, Folder 2, LT seminars (list); Box 42, Folder 5, DT to William Jovanovich, August 5, 1977; Box 43, Folder 17, “The Liberated Heroine,” also William Shawn to DT, May 3, 1978; Box 49, Folder 5, Steven Marcus, oral history; Box 51, Folder 1, oral history, Jack and Susan Thompson; Box 53, Folder 6, oral history, Quentin and Thelma Anderson; Box 54, Folder1, list of reserved seats at LT’s funeral.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Deirdre Carmody, “Trilling Case Sparks Publisher Loyalty Debate,” New York Times, Sept. 30, 1976.
Laura Cottingham, Seeing Through the Seventies: Essays on Feminism and Art (New York: Routledge, 2006).
Koch, “Journey’s Beginning.”
Lerman, The Grand Surprise, 418.
Manso, Mailer, 584.
Podhoretz, Ex-Friends, 94, 95.
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 220 (re: “Pumpkin Papers”).
Diana Trilling, We Must March My Darlings, 45.
Diana Trilling, Goronwy—and Others: A Remembrance of England, Partisan Review, 1996.
Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz, interview by Natalie Robins, Oct. 25, 2011.
Drenka Willen, interview by Natalie Robins, Feb. 12, 2012.
17. NOT GIVING A DAMN
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DTP: Box 2, Folder 9, DT to Patty O’Toole, Sept. 2, 1992; Box 3, Folder 1, DT to Jacques Barzun, July 5, 1977, also DT to Lester Migdal (“eyes kicking up”), Jan. 2, 1977; Box 3, Folder 2, DT to Arnold Beichman, and Arnold Beichman to DT, June 11, 19765, to March 16, 1994; Box 3, Folder 4, DT to Kip Fadiman, April 3, 1979, also Kip Fadiman to DT, Nov. 8, 1975; Box 4, Folder 6, DT to David Riesman, May 30, 1978; Box 8, Folder 3, DT to Kip Fadiman, Oct. 4, 1991; Box 16, Folder 1, Howard Mumford Jones to DT Nov. 6, 1975; Box 17, Folder 1, DT to Pat Goodheart, Jan. 2, 1977; Box 21, Folder 2, childhood memoir (thoughts on Jewishness); Box 29, Folder 4, review by Emile Capoya in The Nation; Box 42, Folder 8, DT to Bill Jovanovich, June 5, 1977: also assorted letters in Box 60, Folder 1; Box 42, Folder 8, DT to Norman Podhoretz, June 25, 1977; Box 60, Folder 1, DT to Bill Jovanovich, Nov. 8, 1977; Box 60, Folder 2, draft of “Biography of a Marriage.”
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
William Jovanovich, The Temper of the West, a memoir (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003), 285–86.
Leo Lerman, The Grand Surprise, 437 (re: Alfred Kazin).
Diana Trilling, We Must March My Darlings, 47 (quotations re: Scoundrel Time).
Diana Trilling, interview by John Firth, Saturday Review, May 28, 1977, 22–25.
Diana Trilling, “Lionel Trilling: A Jew At Columbia,” Commentary, March 1, 1979.
18. HER OWN PLACE
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
DTP: Box 5, Folder 1, DT to Sargent Shriver, June 22, 1971; Box 6, Folder 1, Kip Fadiman to DT Oct. 2, 1981; Box 6, Folder 3, DT to Mark Krupnick; Box 6, Folder 5, Midge Decter to DT Jan. 25, 1980; Box 10, Folder 1, DT letter to Christopher Zinn, June 21, 1987; Box 16, Folder 3, DT to Morris Dickstein, Feb. 13, 1976; Box 16, Folder 4, DT to Lydia Bronte at the Rockefeller Foundation; Box 17, Folder 1, Harriet Trilling Schwartz to DT, Oct. 9, 1977; Box 17, Folder 1, DT to Bernard Cohen, Sept. 1977; Box 17, Folder 1, DT to Elenore Lester, April 6, 1977; Box 17, Folder 4, Daphne Merkin to DT, April 7, 1978; Box 18, Folder 1, DT to John Gross, Feb. 15, 1979, also May 12, 1980; Box 18, Folder 1, DT to Harvard Educational Review, June 6, 11, and 14, 1979; Box 23, assorted material re: Mrs. Harris; Box 26, Folder 2, Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., to DT, April 17, 1982; Box 28, Folder 6, Dannye Romani, “Respectable Headmistress Respectable Murder,” Charlotte Observer, May 11, 1980; Box 28, Folder 7, “Three Racing To Tell Tarnower Story,” New York Post,” May 12, 1981; Box 28, Folder1, assorted Mrs. Harris publicity materials; Box 42, Folder 8, DT to Bill Jovanovich, May 31, 1978 and June 19, 1978, and DT to Bill Jovanovich, May 1, 1978; Box 44, Folder 4, DT to Norman Mailer Nov. 7, 1979, also Norman Mailer to DT, Nov. 27, 1979; Box 53, Folder 14, DT to Ted Solotaroff, Oct. 28, 1977, and Phillip Lopate to DT, March 31, 1981; Box 56, Folder 1, Washington Post Book World announcement of A Respectable Murder.”
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