sexually transmitted diseases, 56, 71, 76, 78
Seymour, Corey, 204
Shakespeare, William, 31, 141, 145
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 37, 39–42, 43, 44
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 24, 37–44, 202
Sherard, Robert, 100–101
Sherwood, Robert, 118
Sinatra, Frank, 190, 194
Sipchen, Bob, 218
Smiley, Jane, 208, 210–11
Socrates, 157
Solders’ Pay (Faulkner), 140
Solheim, Michael, 205
Sometimes a Great Notion (Kesey), 183
songwriting, 179
Sonnets in Suicide, or the Life of John Knox (Parker), 127, 128
Sotolongo, Herrera, 134
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 141
Southern Literary Messenger, 51–52
Southey, Robert, 18
South Wales Daily Post, 146
Sparks, Nicholas, 231
Spielberg, Steven, 239
Stein, Gertrude, 105, 131, 134, 181
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 81–82, 92
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (Stevenson), 82
Styron, William, 197, 210
Subterraneans, The (Kerouac), 159
suicide, 197
Berryman and, 171–72, 178
Fitzgerald and, 108–9, 115
Hemingway and, 132, 137, 162, 177, 205
Kerouac and, 162
Parker and, 119
Plath and, 177–78
Sexton and, 174, 178
Thompson and, 205
Sun, 29
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 131, 160, 225
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 77, 92
Symons, Arthur, 82, 93, 99
Talese, Nan, 233, 236
Tamerlane and Other Poems (Poe), 49–50
Taylor, Alfred, 98
Thaulow, Fritz von, 91
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 106, 110–11, 115
Thomas, Caitlin, 146, 147–48, 149, 150
Thomas, Dylan, 145–52, 172, 174, 179 244
Thompson, Hunter S., xv, 143, 165, 199–205, 223, 235, 244
Thompson, Juan, 205
Thompson, Sandy, 203
Thorazine, 174
Time, 150, 161, 222
Todd, Ruthven, 150
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), 133
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 193
Torn, Rip, 190–91
Toronto Star Weekly, 131
Town and the City, The (Kerouac), 158
Travel and Leisure, 210
Trelawny, Edward, 43
Trips festival, 183
“Triumph of Life, The” (Shelley), 43–44
Turgenev, Ivan, 65
Unger, Douglas, 214–15
United States, 47–48, 148–49
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 172, 176, 207–11
Vanity Fair, 117, 132, 220, 238
Vanity of Duluoz (Kerouac), 161
Verlaine, Mathilde, 84–85, 90
Verlaine, Paul, 73, 83–84, 89–90, 118
Rimbaud’s relationship with, 84–89
Vice, 225
Victoria, Queen, 81
Victorian era, 81–82, 96, 106, 154
Vidal, Gore, 191, 198
Vietnam War, 184, 185, 194
Village Voice, The, 188
Vogue, 117
Vollmer, Joan, 164–65
Voltaire, 3
Vonnegut, Kurt, 196
Wakefield, Dan, 145
Walk to Remember, A (Sparks), 231
Walpole, Hugh, 109
Waters, John, 168
Wenner, Jann, 203, 204
West, Nathanael, 124
Westbrook, Harriet, 38–39, 40, 41–42
We Wanted to Be Writers (Olsen and Schaeffer), 208
Where the Buffalo Roam, 204
Whitman, Sarah Helen, 54
Wilde, Oscar, 84, 91, 94–100, 118, 124, 130
Williams, Tennessee, 162
Willis, N. P., 49
Wilson, B. F., 107
Wilson, Edmund, 107, 126
Wilson, Sloan, 154
Winfrey, Oprah, 234–35, 236, 237, 238
Winters, Shelley, 149
Wolfe, Tom, 199
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 39, 65
Wordsworth, William
Coleridge and, 16, 17, 18, 19, 24
De Quincey and, 22, 23, 24, 25
Wordsworth, William, Jr., 24
World War I, 101, 103, 104, 105, 118
Faulkner in, 140
Hemingway in, 130–31
World War II, 147, 148, 153
Hemingway as journalist during, 133–34
Writer’s Digest, 231
writing programs, 208
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 172, 176, 207–11
Wurtzel, Elizabeth, 179, 223–29, 232, 233
Yeats, W. B., 92
Yellow Book, The, 99
Young, Stark, 140
Young, Toby, 228
yuppies, 214, 218
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ENDNOTES
PREFACE
xiii As a young child: Edward Wyatt, “Public Library Buys a Trove of Burroughs Papers,” New York Times, March 1, 2006.
xiii Frank Castle (not his real name): This encounter, which happened in the summer of 1991, has been altered slightly to obscure the identity of the writer in question.
xv Writers used to be cool: Personal interview with James Frey, 2011.
1: THE VICE LORD
1 In order to know virtue: Michael Largo, Genius and Heroin (New York: Harper Perennial, 2008), p. 251.
2 Contemporary history and tragedy: Thomas Hanna, The Thought and Art of Albert Camus (Chicago: H. Regnery, 1958), p. 83.
3 Forgive my mischief: Maurice Lever, Sade: A Biography, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), p. 58.
4 Sometimes we must sin: Ibid., p. 79.
4 M. de Sade’s escapades: Ibid., p. 102.
5 Your nephew could not be more charming: Gilbert Lély, The Marquis de Sade: A Biography, trans. Alec Brown (London: Elek Books, 1961), p. 49.
6 the most appalling, the most loathsome: Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 561.
6 dreadful brats: Lever, Sade: A Biography, p. 338.
7 A prominent bookseller of the day: Ibid., p. 174.
8 to make them fart: Ibid., p. 195.
9 I pass for the werewolf: Ibid., p. 254.
11 went into prison a man: Ibid., p. 343.
11 the fresh pork of my thoughts: Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography (London: Constable, 1978), p. 141.
11 Imperious, angry, furious: Lever, Sade: A Biography, p. 313.
12 the most impure tale: Geoffrey Gorer, The Marquis de Sade: A Short Account of His Life and Work (New York: Liveright, 1934), p. 89.
12 I have imagined everything: Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography, p. 116.
12 truth titillates: Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, p. 929.
12 read it to see how far: Lever, Sade: A Biography, p. 385.
13 either I am or I am not: Ibid., p. 517.
14 to derive pleasure: Oxford Dictionary, http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/sadism (retrieved June 26, 2012).
14 do not be sorry: Lever, Sade: A Biography, p. 387.
2: THE OPIUM ADDICT
15 By a most unhappy quackery: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Toleration (Part II),” The Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 20 (London: Smith, Elder, 1869), p. 380.
15 demands legislative interference: Daniel Stuart, ed., Letters from the Lake Poets (London: West, Newman, 1889), p. 181.
18 saw not the truth: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Toleration (Part II).”
18 Every person who has witnessed his habits: Joseph Cottle, Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, 2nd ed. (London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1848), p. 373.
18 all the rest had passed away: The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Complete in One Volume (London: A. and W. Galignani, 1829), p. 54.
19 highly struck with his poem: Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, Vol. 2, 2nd ed. (London: Henry Colburn, 1828), p. 53.
19 I had been crucified: Earl Leslie Griggs, ed., Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: Constable, 1932), p. 110.
20 When I heard of the death of Coleridge: The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Vol. 26 (Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1835), p. 508.
3: THE POPE OF DOPE
21 If once a man indulges himself in murder: Thomas De Quincey, “Second Paper on Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 46 (Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1839), p. 662.
21 I am fond of solitude: H. A. Page, Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings vol. 1 (London: John Hogg, 1877), p. 75.
21 by your sick mind: Alexander H. Japp, De Quincey Memorials, Vol. 1 (London: William Heinemann, 1891), p. 85.
22 rattling set: Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Reprinted From the First Edition, with Notes of De Quincey’s Conversation by Richard Woodhouse, and Other Additions, ed. Richard Garnett (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885), p. 226.
23 Without your friendship: Thomas De Quincey, A Diary of Thomas De Quincey, 1803, ed. Horace Ainsworth Eaton (London: N. Douglas, 1927), p. 186.
23 My friendship it is not in my power: Japp, De Quincey Memorials, p. 120.
23 enjoy a girl in the fields: Thomas De Quincey, The Works of Thomas De Quincey: 1853–8, Vol. 18, ed. Edmund Baxter (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2001), p. 35.
23 bought for a penny: Thomas De Quincey (writing anonymously), “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” London Magazine 4 (1821): p. 355.
24 cleverest man: Page, Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings, p. 112.
24 not a well-made man: Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862), p. 139.
24 high literary name: Page, Thomas De Quincey: His Life and Writings, p. 109.
24 intellectual benefactor of my species: Japp, De Quincey Memorials, Vol. 2, p. 111.
25 lives only for himself: Sara Hutchinson, The Letters of Sara Hutchinson from 1800 to 1835, ed. Kathleen Coburn (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954), p. 37.
25 proved a still greater poet: William Wordsworth, A Letter to a Friend of Robert Burns (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816), p. 26.
25 a better wife: William Angus Knight, The Life of William Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1889), p. 203.
26 aloof from the uproar: De Quincey, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” p. 361.
26 sights that are abominable: Thomas De Quincey, “Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 57 (Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1845), p. 747.
26 Nobody will laugh long: Ibid., p. 356.
26 unutterable sorrow: James Gillman, The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (London: William Pickering, 1838), p. 116.
27 talk is of oxen: Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (London: Walter Scott, 1886), p. 2.
27 to be the only member: De Quincey, “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater,” p. 357.
27 to be the Pope: Thomas De Quincey, The Works of Thomas De Quincey 3rd ed., Vol. 1 (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862), p. 199.
27 renounced the use: De Quincey, Confessions, p. 114.
28 The work must be done: John Ritchie Findlay, Personal Recollections of Thomas De Quincey (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1886), p. 40.
4: THE APOSTLE OF AFFLICTION
29 Problem: bored: Daniel Friedman (via Twitter, 2011).
29 a sensational story: Oliver Harvey, “Lord Byron’s Life of Bling, Booze and Groupie Sex,” Sun, August 18, 2008.
29 neither tall nor short: Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron with Notices of His Life, Vol. 1 (New York: J. & J. Harper, 1830), p. 63.
30 I cry for nothing: John Murray, ed., Lord Byron’s Correspondence (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), p. 123.
30 an animated conversation: Marguerite Blessington, The Works of Lady Blessington, Vol. 2 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838), p. 276.
31 a million advantages over me: Samuel Claggett Chew, The Dramas of Lord Byron: A Critical Study (Göttingen: Vendenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1915), p. 88.
31 no indisposition that I know of: Rowland E. Prothero, ed., The Works of 31 Byron: Letters & Journals, Vol. 1 (London: John Murray, 1898), p. 16.
31 the best of life is over: Leslie Alexis Marchand, ed., Byron’s Letters and Journals: “Famous in My Time”: 1810–1812 (Boston: Harvard University Pr
ess, 1973), pp. 47–48.
31 I am tolerably sick of vice: Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, Vol. 1, p. 172.
32 outlived all my appetites: Marchand, ed., Byron’s Letters and Journals, p. 48.
33 every table, and Byron courted: Vere Foster, ed., The Two Duchesses (London: Blackie & Son, 1898), p. 376.
33 fame is but like all other pursuits: Marguerite Blessington, Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington (London: Henry Colburn, 1834), pp. 280–281.
33 How very disagreeable it is: Ibid., p. 114.
33 there were days when he seemed more pleased: Ibid.
33 anonymous amatory letters: Ibid., p. 98.
34 I will kneel and be torn from: Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron’s Wife (London: John Murray, 1974), p. 146.
34 I cut the hair too close: Bernard D. N. Grebanier, The Uninhibited Byron (New York: Crown, 1971), p. 117.
34 Any woman can make a man: Murray, ed., Lord Byron’s Correspondence, p. 85.
35 I am about to be married: Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (London: Henry Colburn, 1828), p. 257.
35 end in hell, or in an unhappy: Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron with Notices of His Life, Vol. 3, 3rd ed. (London: John Murray, 1833), p. 152.
35 the one I most loved: Peter Gunn, A Biography of Augusta Leigh, Lord Byron’s Half-Sister (New York: Atheneum, 1968), p. 99.
36 I was unfit for England: Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, Vol. 3, p. 44.
36 Nothing so completely serves: Blessington, Conversations of Lord Byron, p. 237.
36 laws are bound to think a man innocent: Ibid., p. 275.
5: THE ROMANTICS
37 Our sweetest songs: Harry Buxton Forman, ed., The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Vol. 2 (London: Reeves and Turner, 1880), p. 303.
37 Poets have no friends: Blessington, Conversations of Lord Byron, p. 58.
38 live on love: Sarah K. Bolton, Famous English Authors of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1890), p. 160.
39 Many innocent girls become the dupes: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), p. 119.
39 wild and unearthly: Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 (London: Edward Moxon, 1858), pp. 166–7.
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