BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Diana Trilling, interview by Patricia Bosworth, Paris Review, Winter 1993.
Koch, “Journey’s Beginning.”
Mark Krupnick, “The Trillings: A Marriage of Two Minds,” Salmagundi, no. 103 (Summer 1994).
Phillip Lopate, “Remembering Lionel Trilling,” in Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis, 161.
“Confesses He Gave Poison to His Wife,” New York Times article (April 25, 1924) sent to DT by Beth Karas, June 28, 1995.
Interviews by Natalie Robins: Patricia Bosworth, May 29, 2012; Jules Feiffer, June 11, 2012 (telephone interview); Stephen Koch, Nov. 12, 2013; Daphne Merkin, Oct. 5, 2012; Peter Pouncey, former dean of Columbia and former president of Amherst College, May 2, 2012 (telephone interview); Michael Rosenthal, April 24, 2012; Elisabeth Sifton, May 8, 2013; Phyllis Theroux, June 18, 2013.
Morris Dickstein, email to Natalie Robins, Feb. 3, 2014.
19. RE-CREATION AND IMAGINATION
Information in this chapter was drawn from the following:
DTP: Box 3, Folder 1, DT to Hannah Robinson, Harvest Books Marketing Director, Jan. 11, 1996; Box 3, Folder 4, DT to Judy Rosenthal, Oct. 4, 1994; Box 5, Folder 3, DT to Anatole Broyard, Dec. 27, 1981; Box 6, Folder 4, Norman Mailer to DT, n.d.; Box 7, Folder 1, typed review of Mrs. Harris by Peter Shaw with “by DT” at top and “Written for PR but he asked that it be returned”; Box 7, Folder 6, DT to Georges Borchardt, March 4, 1994, also Georges Borchardt to DT, several letters; Box 7, Folder 6, Jacques Barzun to DT, Nov. 19, 1993; Box 8, Folder 1, DT to Susan Moore, Oct. 2, 1987; Box 8, Folder 3, DT to Kip Fadiman, Jan. 29, 1993; Box 8, Folder 5, Gertrude Himmelfarb to DT, July 8, 1994, and DT to Gertrude Himmelfarb, July 28, 1994; Box 8, Folder 6, DT to Gene Marcus, May 6, 1995, and Feb. 26, 1996; Box 9, Folder 4, DT to James Seaton, Department of English, Michigan State University, Nov. 9, 1995; Box 18, Folder 3, DT to Dr. Arnold Lisio, n.d. (but sometime in 1996); Box 20, Folder 2, DT notes on Mrs. Harris; Box 20, Folder 5, assorted reviews of The Beginning of the Journey; Box 23, Folder 3, interview by Steven M. L. Aronson in Interview magazine; Box 23, Folder 4, DT to Bill Jovanovich, April 18, 1981; Box 23, Folder 5, DT to Edward Klein, April 3, 1981; Box 28, Folder 3, “Penguin’s Using Two Covers for Selling Mrs. Harris,” Publisher’s Weekly, July 30, 1982; Box 23, Folder 6, DT to Joyce Slater, Dec. 5, 1982, also several other letters mentioned in chapter; Box 28, Folder 3, All Things Considered, Oct. 22, 1981; Box 28, Folder 4, Michael Sovern to DT, Feb. 26, 1982, also “Hollywood Connection,” by Hank Grant, July 1982; Box 28, Folder 5, “Hard Time in Hard-Cover Country,” Time, March 22, 1982; Box 28, Folder 8, Martin Amis, “A Critic in the Courtroom,” Observer, May 2, 1982; Box 28, Folder 8, Rebecca West in The Sunday Telegraph, May 9, 1982, also Anita Brookner, London Review of Books, May 9, 1982, and several other book reviews mentioned in chapter by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt; George V. Higgins, R. Z. Sheppard, Joseph Adelman, Elizabeth Pochoda, Dorothy Rabinowitz, and Michiko Kakatani; Box 31, Folder 221, “Footnote to My Life as a Critic,” by DT; Box 32, Folder 5, Cressida Leyshon at The New Yorker to DT, July 28, 1995; also DT to Tina Brown, n.d.; Box 34, Folder 4, “Notes on the Trial of the Century,” by DT, New Republic, Oct. 30, 1995, also DT to Editors of the New Republic, Oct. 16, 1995; Box 37, Folder 7, Sally Jacobs, “Diana Trilling Readies for the Next Political Battle,” Boston Globe, Sept. 19, 1995, and DT to Sally Jacobs, Sept. 28, 1995; Box 37, Folder 12, DT, “Reading By Ear,” Civilization, Nov./Dec. 1994; Box 42, Folder 6, Guggenheim material; Box 42, Folder 8, assorted letters from DT to Bill Jovanovich; Box 43, Folder 1, DT to Bill Jovanovich, April 20, 1994; Box 43, Folder 9, DT to Jim Hyde, May 30, 1996; Box 53, Folder 11, DT to Edward Said, Sept. 15, 1986.
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey, 405.
Natalie Robins, Living in the Lightning, 62–63.
Patricia Bosworth, “A Life of Significant Contention,” New York Times, Dec. 29, 1996.
Diana Trilling, interview by Patricia Bosworth, Paris Review, Winter 1993.
Lis Harris, “Di and Li,” New Yorker. Sept. 13, 1993.
Kathleen Hill, “Reading with Diana,” Yale Review 86, no. 3 (1998): 1–29.
Koch, “Journey’s Beginning.”
Michael Norman, DT’s obituary in The New York Times, Oct. 25, 1996.
Assorted tapes with DT made by Brom Anderson.
Fritz Stern, telephone interview by Natalie Robins, Feb. 26, 2015.
Patricia O’Toole, telephone interview by Natalie Robins, June 16, 2012.
Daphne Merkin, interview by Natalie Robins, Oct. 15, 2012.
Peter Manso, interview by Natalie Robins, March 30, 2016.
Dore Levy, email exchange, April 16, 2016.
Oliver Conant, telephone interview by Natalie Robins, June 23, 2016.
EPILOGUE: ARCADIA
BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND OTHER RESOURCES
Lynn Weiss, Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults, foreword by Kenneth A. Bonnett (Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade, 2005).
Sarah Boxer, “Doctor Resigns over Trilling Diagnosis,” New York Times, May 29, 1999.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, “A Man’s Own Household His Enemies,” Commentary, July 1, 1999.
Daphne Merkin, “A Passion for Order,” New York Times, Nov. 17, 1996.
James Trilling, “My Father and the Weak-Eyed Devils.”
John Rodden, “The Trilling Family ‘Romance’: Report of a Psychoanalytic Autopsy,” Modern Age, Summer 2006.
Gloria Steinem, “The Woman Who Will Not Die,” 1986 (from “Marilyn Monroe: Still Life,” America Masters, season 20, episode 4, aired July 19, 2006.
Description of ADD as part of ADHD is from Steven Kurtz of the Child Mind Institute and Natalie Robins’s email exchange with Dr. Natalie Weber of the Child Mind Institute, Sept. 25, 2013.
Sarah Gund, interview by Natalie Robins, Oct. 26, 2012.
Dore Levy, email exchange with Natalie Robins, May 12, 2016.
“Dreary Details About My Funeral,” from Dore Levy.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS BY OR EDITED BY DIANA TRILLING
The Portable D. H. Lawrence (editor). New York: Viking, 1947.
The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence (editor). New York: Doubleday, 1961.
Claremont Essays. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964.
We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Reviewing the Forties. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
The Last Decade: Essays and Reviews, 1965–1975, by Lionel Trilling (editor). New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1979.
Of This Time, of That Place, and Other Stories, by Lionel Trilling (compiler). New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1979.
Speaking of Literature and Society, by Lionel Trilling (editor). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.
BOOKS BY LIONEL TRILLING
Matthew Arnold. New York: Norton, 1939.
E. M. Forster. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943.
The Middle of the Journey. New York: Viking, 1947.
The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. New York: Viking, 1950.
The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism. New York: Viking, 1955.
Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. Boston: Beacon, 1955.
Gathering of Fugitives. Boston: Beacon, 1956.
Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Sincerity and Authenticity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Mind in the Modern World: The 1972 Thomas Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. New York: Viking, 1973.
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays. Edited by Leon Wiesel
tier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel. Edited by Geraldine Murphy. New York: Columbia University Press: 2008.
GENERAL SOURCES
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV. Washington, DC: APA, 2005.
Brenner, Marie. Great Dames: What I Learned from Older Women. New York: Crown, 2000.
Bloom, Alexander. Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Brightman, Carol. Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992.
Chambers, Whittaker. Witness. Washington, DC: Regnery, 1952, 1980.
Clarke, Gerald. Capote: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Cooney, Terry A. The Rise of the New York Intellectuals: “Partisan Review” and Its Circle, 1934–1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
Heilbrun, Carolyn G. When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers—Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Jacoby, Russell. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
Jovanovich, William. The Temper of the West. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
Kirsch, Adam. Why Trilling Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Kristol, Irving. The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays 1942–2009. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1986.
Krystal, Arthur, editor. A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W. H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from the Readers’ Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Kurzweil, Edith. Full Circle: A Memoir. London: Transaction, 2007.
Laskin, David. Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Lerman, Leo. The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Lopate, Phillip. Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis. New York: Poseidon, 1989.
Manso, Peter. Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Washington Square Press, 2008.
Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. New York: Basic Books, 1966; New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2011.
Phillips, William. A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.
Podhoretz, Norman. Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer. New York: Free Press, 1999.
Rodden, John, and Morris Dickstein. Lionel Trilling and the Critics: Opposing Selves. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Trilling, James. The Language of Ornament. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
Shoben, Edward Joseph, Jr. Lionel Trilling. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981.
Taylor, Benjamin. Saul Bellow Letters. New York, Viking-Penguin, 2010.
Taylor, Benjamin. Into the Open: Reflection on Genius and Modernity. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
Wald, Alan M. The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Weiss, Lynn. Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults: A Different Way of Thinking. New York: Taylor Trade, 1997 (rev. ed. 2005).
INDEX
Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.
Note: Diana and Lionel Trilling are referred to as DT and LT in the subheadings below.
ADD, 347–54
Addabte, Grace, 139
Adelson, Joseph, 321
Agee, James, 106
Albee, Edward, 236–37
Alexander, Shana, 317
All the King’s Men (Warren), 118
All Souls College, Oxford, 258–60
All Things Considered (NPR broadcast), 322
Alter, Jonathan, 331–32
Alvarez, A., 150, 240–41
American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 137, 166, 184–85, 189
American Review, 311
Ames, Elizabeth, 59, 60
Amis, Martin, 324
Anderson, Brom, 181, 198, 214, 306
Anderson, Quentin, 57–58, 73, 124, 127–28, 140, 233, 289–90
Anderson, Thelma Ehrlich, 57–58, 124, 212; DT’s correspondence with/statements to, 73, 143, 156, 194–95, 236, 243, 259, 263, 268; friendship with DT, 198, 283
Andrew, Henry, 187
Animal Farm (Orwell), 118
Arendt, Hannah, 103, 213, 240, 241, 275
Arnold, Matthew, 59–60, 79–81, 85–87
Arvin, Newton, 120, 243
Aswell, Mary Louise, 116
The Atlantic, 249–50
Atlas, James, 333
Auden, W. H., 119, 120, 166, 194
The Auden Generation (Hynes), 289
Avedon, Richard, 332–33
Bachelorhood (Lopate), 311
Balliol College, Oxford, 225–31
Barzun, Jacques, 119, 230, 274, 303, 334; and American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 166; and DT’s journal on motherhood, 186; and DT’s The Beginning of the Journey, 334; friendship with the Trillings, 88, 90; high regard for DT, 218; Jim Trilling and, 132, 181; joint colloquium with LT, 88–89, 334; and The Liberal Imagination, 140; and reviews of We Must March My Darlings, 287–88; tensions over uniform edition of LT’s complete works, 277
Barzun, Mariana, 90, 132
Bayley, John, 230
Beat poets, 192–95, 218, 233
The Beginning of the Journey (D. Trilling), 68, 73, 77, 101, 125–26, 136, 147, 154, 213, 241, 280, 313, 327–37; critical reception of, 314, 332–36; dedication, 345; and Guggenheim fellowship, 149, 330; Lionel Trilling Book Award for, 337; publication of, 332; writing process, 327–30
Beichman, Arnold, 168–69, 274; and American Committee for Cultural Freedom, 190; DT’s correspondence with, 191, 230; DT’s relationship with, 204–5, 214; falling out with DT, 284–87; friendship with the Trillings, 169, 202; and Lillian Hellman, 284; Nine Lies About America, 261
Beichman, Carroll, 274, 284–86; on DT’s attachment to Stephen Marcus, 210, 215; friendship with the Trillings, 169, 202–6; LT’s relationship with, 203–6, 212–14; marriage to Arnold Beichman, 204, 215
Bellow, Saul, 294
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 11
Bennett, Peggy, 117
Bentley, Eric, 106, 303
Benton, William, 167
Berenbach, Anita, 113
Berlin, Isaiah and Aline, 230, 280–81, 305
Beutel, Bill, 252–53
Beyond Culture (L. Trilling), 235–36
Blitzstein, Marc, 61
Bogan, Louise, 107
Borchardt, Georges, 332
Bosworth, Patricia, 102; DT’s statements to, 102, 183, 212, 315, 316, 337; friendship with DT, 312–13; interview with DT, 335–36
Bowen, Elizabeth, 230
Breslin, Jimmy, 252–53
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 108
Brill, Abraham, 74
Brodkey, Harold, 151
Brookner, Anita, 323
Brooks, Cleanth, Jr., 91
Brown, Francis, 187
Brown, Tina, 337
Broyard, Anatole, 322–23
Brunswick, Ruth, 77–78, 97, 104
Buckley, William F., Jr., xii–xiii, 290–91
Bunche, Ralph, 309
Burgess, Guy, 340
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 86, 285
But We Are Born Free (Davis), 165–66
Calingaert, George, 179
Calloway, Cab, 65
Camp Lenore, 12, 15, 16, 72, 92, 339, 341–42
Capote, Truman, 133, 222, 243
Ca
pouya, Emile, 301
Carnegie Corporation, 164–65
Castro, Fidel, 221
Ceballos, Jacqueline, 264
censorship, 173–74, 280, 289
Chambers, Whittaker, xii, 68–69, 125, 137, 149–50, 234, 278
Cheever, John, 109–10
Childhood and Society (Erikson), 143
A Choice of Kipling’s Verses (Eliot, ed.), 113
Christianity, 132, 250, 272
CIA, 190, 217–18, 285–86
Civilization magazine, 330
Claremont Essays (D. Trilling), 222, 231–35, 240–41
Clark, Eleanor, 86, 157–58, 206
Cohen, Bernard, 312, 314
Cohen, Elliot, 42, 63, 64, 103
Cohen, Franny, 312, 342, 352–53
Cold War, 137, 218
Collier Books, 222–23
Columbia Spectator, 253
Columbia University: Barzun–Trilling colloquium, 88–89; book award in LT’s honor, 336–37; Diana Trilling Papers at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, xv; DT as unpopular faculty wife, 192–93, 218; and DT’s essay on LT, 298–300; Lionel Trilling seminars, 305, 336; LT’s crisis at (1936), 79–80; LT’s education at, 27, 30; LT’s teaching career at, 63, 79–80, 86–87, 90–91, 140; protests of 1968, 253–56; and taped recollections of friends and acquaintances of LT, 304
Commentary, 121, 189, 255–56, 284–85, 298–300
The Common Reader (Woolf), 133–34
Communism, 165–68, 313; anti-Communist stance of the Trillings, xii–xiii, 66–69, 150, 162, 170; and Partisan Review, 189–90 (see also Partisan Review); and rifts in intellectual and literary community, 189–91; the Trillings’ introduction to, 60–64
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