Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material, some of which first appeared under different titles:
The Miami Herald: “Early Assignments: Tracking the Missing Leopard.”
The New York Times: “A Speech: Be Reasonable, Unless You’re a Writer”; “Ernest Hemingway: His Dangerous Summer”; “The Crapes of Wrath at Fifty: Steinbeck’s Journals”; “Nothing Happens in Carmincross: Benedict Kiely’s Deathly Variety Show”; “Gabriel García Márquez: The Autumn of the Patriarch”; “Mario Vargas Llosa: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”; and “Frank Sinatra: Pluperfect Music.” Copyright © 1976, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
The Paris Review: “Fragments of a Talk with The Paris Review: Ironweed and Style.”
Review: “Carlos Fuentes: Distant Relations” and “Ernesto Sábato: On Heroes and Tombs.” By permission of Review and the Center for Inter-American Relations, Inc.
The Times Union (Albany): “Early Assignments: Langford, Prominent Cat, Dies”; “Albert the Swimmer”; “Bernard Malamud: On The Fixer”; “J. P. Donleavy: Captivated by Ginger: A Non-Interview”; “The Beat Generation: Ginsberg’s Albany Pain”; “E. L. Doctorow: Shimmering Loon Lake”; “Frank Sullivan: Serious Only About Humor”; “Pablo Casals: Master Class at Marlboro”; “Paul McCartney: The Major Possum Game”; “Marshall McLuhan’s Message Is …?”; “Rudolph Valentino: He’s No Bogart”; “Cassius Clay Arrives”; “Ballet: Everybody Loves a Fat Girl, Right?”; “Roberta Sue Ficker Is Going to Become Suzanne Farrell”; “Jody Bolden or Bobby Henderson: Either Way the Music Was Great”; “The Charcoal Man: Warming Up to the Press”; “Radicalism and Dwight MacDonald: Not What They Used to Be”; and “Requiem for a Lady at the Bottom of the World.”
Viking Penguin: “Damon Runyon: Six-to-Five: A Nice Price,” an introduction to Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon. Copyright © WJK, Inc., 1992. By permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
The Washington Post: “The Beginning of the Writer: Eggs”; “Samuel Beckett: The Artful Dodger Revealed”; “Players: DeLillo’s Poisoned Flowers”; “O’Hara’s Letters: A Quest for Celebrity”; “Lygia Fagundes Telles: The Girl in the Photograph”; and “Julio Cortázar: A Manual for Manuel.” © 1977, 1978, 1982, 1989 The Washington Post. Reprinted with permission.
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