First, “everyone I know” occurs fourteen times: “Polemic and the New Reviewing,” New Yorker, July 4, 1964.
Though I may have read things: Irving Kristol, “On Literary Politics,” New Leader, August 3, 1964.
Word came that Mrs. Viola Liuzzo: “Letter from Selma,” New Yorker, April 10, 1965.
East Coast’s Joan Didion: Jesse Kornbluth, “The Quirky Brilliance of Renata Adler,” New York, December 12, 1983.
a growing fringe of waifs: “Fly Trans Love Airways,” New Yorker, February 25, 1967.
He began to yodel: Ibid.
I am part of an age group: Introduction to Toward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism (Dutton, 1971).
Even if your idea of a good time: “A Teutonic Striptease,” New Yorker, January 4, 1968.
among the most fond: “Norman Mailer’s Mailer,” New York Times, January 8, 1968.
Renata Adler, of the New York Times, did not like: This advertisement was quoted by the court in Adler v. Condé Nast Publications, Inc., 643 F. Supp. 1558 (S.D.N.Y. 1986).
Both her supporters and detractors: Lee Beauport, “Trade Making Chart on Renata Adler; but Some Like Her Literary Flavor,” Variety, March 6, 1968.
One of the things democracy may be: “How Movies Speak to Young Rebels,” New York Times, May 19, 1968.
Maybe it is an anti-Mummy reflex: “Science + Sex = Barbarella,” New York Times, October 12, 1968.
learn to write to deadline: Interview with Christopher Bollen, Interview, August 14, 2014.
spoke with a kind of awe: Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics, 2013), 5.
Whatever their other motives: Renata Adler, Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time (Knopf, 1986).
she too often surrenders: Ronald Dworkin, “The Press on Trial,” New York Review of Books, February 26, 1987.
claimed she had snowed them: See Robert Gottlieb, Avid Reader: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), 220.
comically incurious: Gone, 203.
an explosion of pain and anger: Robert Gottlieb, “Ms. Adler, the New Yorker, and Me,” New York Observer, January 17, 2000.
contrary to his reputation: Gone, 125.
If I did not wish to “disclose” my “sources”: “A Court of No Appeal,” Harper’s, August 2000.
The six-volume Starr Report: “Decoding the Starr Report,” Vanity Fair, February 1999.
I’ve said it all along: Rachel Cooke, “Renata Adler: ‘I’ve Been Described as Shrill. Isn’t That Strange?’“ Guardian, July 7, 2013.
Chapter Fourteen: Malcolm
Almost everyone else in the analytic world: In the Freud Archives (Knopf, 1983), 35.
Everything he said and thought: Ibid., 133
the kindergarten teacher saying: “Janet Malcolm: The Art of Nonfiction No. 4,” interview with Katie Roiphe, Paris Review, Spring 2011.
I went to see: “A Star Is Borne,” New Republic, December 24, 1956.
Outside the theatre: “Black and White Trash,” New Republic, September 2, 1957.
it is hard to tell about this: Letter to the editor by James F. Hoyle, New Republic, September 9, 1957.
the leading authorities everywhere: Letter to the editor by Hal Kaufman, New Republic, September 30, 1957.
awful nuisance: “D. H. Lawrence and His Friends,” New Republic, February 3, 1958.
One is forced to add: Letter to the editor by Norman Mailer, New Republic, March 9, 1959.
Our children are a mirror of belief: “Children’s Books for Christmas,” New Yorker, December 17, 1966.
I don’t know how Dr. Lasagna: “Children’s Books for Christmas,” New Yorker, December 14, 1968.
In any case, a woman who chooses: “Help! Homework for the Liberated Woman,” New Republic, October 10, 1970.
As for those that raise questions of substance: “No Reply,” New Republic, November 14, 1970.
who, as yet, is better known for his wife: “About the House,” New Yorker, March 18, 1972.
Rereading these essays: Preface to Diana and Nikon (Aperture, 1997).
The [Walker] Evans book: “Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Pa.,” New Yorker, August 6, 1979.
Innocently opening the book: “Artists and Lovers,” New Yorker, March 12, 1979.
Family therapy will take over: “The One-Way Mirror,” New Yorker, May 15, 1978.
The empty couch: Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (Knopf, 1977), 47.
mischievous: Joseph Adelson, “Not Much Has Changed Since Freud,” New York Times, September 27, 1981.
I was attracted to psychoanalytic work: Psychoanalysis, 110.
an intellectual gigolo: Ibid., 41.
what Anna Freud once said to me: Ibid., 38.
a masterwork of character assassination: https://www.salon.com/2000/02/29/malcolm/.
I wonder if he ever cared: Ibid., 163.
The portrait, in fact: Letter to the editor by Janet Malcolm, New York Times, June 1, 1984.
numerous commentators: See, e.g., Robert Boynton, “Who’s Afraid of Janet Malcolm?” Mirabella, November 1992, available at http://www.robertboynton.com/articleDisplay.php?article_id=1534.
I should have known: “Janet Malcolm: The Art of Nonfiction No. 4.”
Any journalist who is not too stupid: The Journalist and the Murderer (Vintage, 1990), 3.
Well, it was a bit of rhetoric: I remember this remark from Malcolm’s appearance with Ian Frazier at the New Yorker Festival on September 30, 2011.
He is a kind of confidence man: The Journalist and the Murderer, 3.
Miss Malcolm appears: Albert Scardino, “Ethics, Reporters, and the New Yorker,” New York Times, March 21, 1989.
fellow workers recording politicians’ doings: Ron Grossman, “Malcolm’s Charge Turns on Itself,” Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1990.
David Rieff stuck up for her: David Rieff, “Hoisting Another by Her Own Petard,” Los Angeles Times, March 11, 1990.
What Janet Malcolm was saying: Nora Ephron in the Columbia Journalism Review, July 1, 1989.
I thought Malcolm’s articles were marvelous: Jessica Mitford in the Columbia Journalism Review, July 1, 1989.
confession of Malcolm’s sins: John Taylor, “Holier Than Thou,” New York, March 27, 1989.
Masson was too honest: David Margolick, “Psychoanalyst Loses Libel Suit Against a New Yorker Reporter,” New York Times, November 3, 1994.
Who hasn’t felt pleasure: “Janet Malcolm: The Art of Nonfiction No. 4.”
then dropping him again: “The Morality of Journalism,” New York Review of Books, March 1, 1990.
Unlike the “I” of autobiography: The Journalist and the Murderer, 159–60.
Forty-One False Starts: See article of that title in the New Yorker, July 11, 1994.
She had once: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Vintage, 1995), 13.
official history: Letter from Ted Hughes, quotes in The Silent Woman, 53.
I saw what he was getting at: Ibid., 48.
At lunch I made a mess: Letter from Janet Malcolm to Susan Sontag, dated October 3, 1998, in the Susan Sontag Archive at UCLA.
I had formed the idea of writing: “A Girl of the Zeitgeist,” New Yorker, October 20, 27, 1986.
Afterword
Exceptional women in my generation: Speech given by Mary McCarthy at City Arts and Lectures, San Francisco, October 1985, quoted in Kiernan, Seeing Mary Plain, 710.
To read such a book: Adrienne Rich, “Conditions for Work: The Common World of Women,” in On Lies, Secrets and Silence (Norton, 1979).
simple-minded: Adrienne Rich and Susan Sontag, “Feminism and Fascism: An Exchange,” New York Review of Books, March 20, 1975.
That piece was about: Interview with Christopher Bollen, undated, available online at http://www.christopherbollen.com/archive/joan_didion.pdf.
When you are all alone: Arendt, Varnhagen, 218.
Index
Abel, Lionel
Abzug, Bella
&nbs
p; Acocella, Joan
Adams, Franklin P.
Adler, Renata. See also specific works
appearance of
Arendt and
awards and honors
background
characteristics
colleagues’ opinions of
Gopnik and
Gottlieb and
Kael and
McCarthy and
media reporting of falsehoods and
New Yorker and
New York Times and
ostracization of
Podhoretz and
suit against Washington Journalism
Review
Vanity Fair and
Adorno, Theodor
Advertisements for Myself (Mailer)
Against Interpretation (Sontag)
“Against Interpretation” (Sontag)
Against Our Will (Brownmiller)
Ainslee’s
Aitken, William Maxwell (Lord Beaverbrook)
Algonquin Round Table
beginning of
Kael and talents at
members
West and
women at
Allen, Woody
Alvarez, Al
Andrews, Henry
Ann Veronica (Wells)
anti-Semitism. See also Nazism
Arendt and
in France
Heidegger and
in US
“Any Porch” (Parker)
Arbus, Diane
Arendt, Hannah. See also specific works
Adler and
on aims of Varnhagen biography
anti-Semitism and
arrest by Nazis
background
“banality of evil,”
on The Benefactor
on Benjamin’s suicide
biography of Varnhagen
Blücher and
Arendt, Hannah characteristics
on collaboration with Nazis
colleagues’ opinion of
“conscious pariahs,”
death
difficulty writing in English
on distinction of being Jewish
early newspaper articles
essays on existentialism
feminism and
Heidegger and
internment camp in France
on Kazin
living conditions in US
marriage
McCarthy and
Partisan Review and
political theory of
relationship between good and evil
reputation
school desegregation and
Sontag and
Arendt, Martha
Arendt, Paul
Arlen, Alice
Atlantic Monthly
“At Valladolid” (West)
Aufbau
auteurist theory
“A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?” (Sontag)
Axel’s Castle (Wilson)
Baldwin, James
“banality of evil,”
Barringer, Felicity
Barthes, Roland
Battleaxe
Beatty, Warren
Beaverbrook, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken)
Behrman, S. N.
Bell, Vanessa
Bellow, Saul
Benchley, Robert
The Benefactor (Sontag)
Benhabib, Seyla
Benjamin, Walter
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernays, Edward
Bernstein, Carl
“Big Blonde” (Parker)
“The Big Rock Candy Figgy Pudding Pitfall” (Didion)
The Birth of a Nation
Bishop, Elizabeth
Bitter Fame (Stevenson)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (West)
Blücher, Heinrich
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bonnie and Clyde
A Book of Common Prayer (Didion)
“Book Reviewing and Everyone I Know” (Podhoretz)
Books
Botsford, Gardner
Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Lessing)
Broadwater, Bowden
Brooks, Louise
Broughton, James
Brownmiller, Susan
Buchman, Sidney
Buckley, William F.
Burke, Billie
Burke, Kenneth
Burroughs, William S.
Caesar’s Wife (Maugham)
camp
Campbell, Alan
Canetti, Elias
Cannibals and Missionaries (McCarthy)
Castle, Terry
Cavett, Dick
Chaplin, Charlie
Charade
Chase, Edna Woolman
Chicago Tribune
The Children’s Hour (Hellman)
Christian Science Monitor
Cinema Guild
“Circles and Squares” (Kael)
Citizen Kane
City Lights
civil rights
Clarion
Columbia Journalism Review
Commentary
Communism
Blücher and
Cowley as “megaphone for,”
Hellman and
McCarthy and
Parker and
Partisan Review and
Rahv and
similarities to Fascism
Sontag accused of favoring
in US
The Company She Keeps (McCarthy)
Condé Nast
“conscious pariahs”
African Americans as
The Origins of Totalitarianism and
Phillips and Rahv as
refugees in US as
Varnhagen as among
Con Spirito
Constant Reader
Cosmopolitan
Cowley, Malcolm
Crazy Salad (Ephron)
“Crisis in Education” (Arendt)
Crowninshield, Frank
Crowther, Bosley
“Dealing with the uh, Problem” (Ephron)
Dean, John
Death Kit (Sontag)
Democracy (Didion)
The Destruction of the European Jews (Hilberg)
Diana and Nikon (Malcolm)
The Dick Cavett Show
Didion, Eduene
Didion, Frank
Didion, Joan. See also specific works
Allen and
awards and honors
background
characteristics
children
Ephron and
essays after Saturday Evening Post folded
fame
feminism and
filmmaking
Gurley Brown and
Kael and
Kauffmann and
literary persona
marriage
McCarthy and
National Review and
New York Review of Books and
personal columns
Saturday Evening Post and
second wave of feminism and
sources of writers’ material
discrimination. See racism
Dissent
Donoghue, Denis
Dos Passos, John
Dukakis, Michael
Dunne, John Gregory
filmmaking
Kael and
marriage
Saturday Evening Post column
in writings of Didion
Dunne, Quintana Roo
Dupee, Fred
Duras, Marguerite
“The Duty of Harsh Criticism” (West)
Earle, Willie
Eckford, Elizabeth
Eichmann, Adolf
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt)
Eisenhower, Julie Nixon
Eissler, Kurt
Ellison, Ralph
El Salvador
Encounter
Enough Rope (Parker)
Ephron, Henry
Ephron, Nora. See also speci
fic works
articles for women’s magazines
background
characteristics
death
Didion and
Esquire and
fame
feminism and
Gurley Brown and
Hellman and
Malcolm and
marriages
at Newsweek
Parker and
as reporter
reputation as social critic
as screenwriter
writing in first person
Ephron, Phoebe
Epstein, Barbara
Epstein, Jason
Esquire
Didion and
Ephron and
Kael and
Parker and
Sontag and
Evergreen Review
Everywoman delusion
existentialism, Arendt’s essays on
Fairfield, Charles
Fairfield, Cicely Isabel. See West, Rebecca
Fairfield, Isabella
“Fantasies of the Art-House Audience” (Kael)
“Farewell to the Enchanted City” (“Goodbye to All That,” Didion)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Fascinating Fascism” (Sontag)
Fascism. See also Nazism
“A Feast for Open Eyes” (Sontag)
feminism. See also suffragettes
Arendt and
defiance of gendered expectations,
Didion and
Ephron and
Kael and
Malcolm and
McCarthy and
Millett and
Parker and
Phoebe Ephron and
psychoanalysis and
sexism in journalists’ assignments
sexism in reviews of Didion’s Slouching
Towards Bethlehem
sexism of auteur critics
Sontag and
Vanity Fair and
Wells as supporter
West and
women in war and
Ferber, Edna
“A Few Words About Breasts” (Ephron)
Film Culture
Final Solution
The Fire Next Time (Baldwin)
Firestone, Shulamith
Fitzgerald, Ellen
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
FitzGerald, Frances
Fitzgerald, Zelda
“The Flapper” (Parker)
Fornés, María Irene
“Forty-One False Starts” (Malcolm)
Franny and Zooey (Salinger)
Freewoman
Fresno Bee
Freud, Anna
Friedan, Betty
Gardiner, Muriel
Gellhorn, Martha
Germany, Nazi
Final Solution
intellectuals and
mass self-deception and delusion
Nuremberg trials
takeover
West on
Germany between World Wars
Gilliatt, Penelope
“A Girl of the Zeitgeist” (Malcolm)
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