by Blake Bailey
the Seinfeld episode: Larry David kindly provided me with a videotape of this episode.
“scalded”: Int. J. R. Jones.
“I’d like to kill that son of a bitch!”: Int. Tim Parrish.
“a bomb on wheels”: Quoted in Featherstone, “November 7, 1992,” 161.
“I loved and hated Richard Yates”: RYAW, 21.
The details of RY’s adventure in New York were mostly provided by Susan Braudy, RY’s daughters, Ned Leavitt, and one or two others.
“He couldn’t seem to finish it”: Lacy, “Remembering Richard Yates,” 218.
“drop a hint”: from Prettyman’s personal diary, July 18, 1991.
“She’s gone and married an electrician”: Int. Mark Costello.
“Congratulations,” he wrote: RY drafted his reply in holograph on Martha’s announcement, dated July 11, 1991.
He told Prettyman … “performance”: Prettyman’s diary, July 18, 1991.
“I feel like taking a gun”: Int. Susan Braudy.
“vintage Yates”: Quoted in Lacy, “Remembering RY,” 219.
Yates was appalled: Int. Tony Earley.
The manuscript of Uncertain Times is now part of the Richard Yates Collection at Boston University. An excerpt from the novel was published in Open City 3 (1995), 35–71.
“He ended the conversation”: Letter to author from Loree Rackstraw.
“I got smashed last night”: Lacy, “Remembering Richard Yates,” 220.
“Dropping the telephone”: RYAW, 22.
“Richard Yates … finest post-war novelist”: Scott Bradfield, “Follow the Long and Revolutionary Road,” The Independent, November 21, 1992, 31.
“Sam, I’m dying”: RYAW, 61.
Epilogue
“two inches in the Times”: E-mail to author from John P. Lowens; Robert Lehrman, Workshop, 746.
“Dick let himself die”: Int. Pat Dubus.
“forced march”: RYAW, 13–15.
Gaiser … startled the crowd: Int. Grace Schulman.
“He drank too much”: RYAW, 61.
“[He] managed to squeeze out”: Robert Riche, What Are We Doing in Latin America? (Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1990), 75.
“Reading about ‘Pritchard Bates’”: RY to Riche, March 3, 1991.
“So big deal Bob Parker”: Monica Yates to Robert Parker, undated, Parker papers.
“painful conclusion”: Lawrence to Monica Yates, March 8, 1993.
“many important writers”: Seymour Lawrence’s obituary appeared in the New York Times, January 7, 1994, A22.
“one of the few good voices”: RYAW, 31.
“the descriptions of things, like a hanger”: Edwin Weihe, Workshop, 743.
“finally the British reading public”: Paul Connolly, The Times (London), January 27, 2001.
“I remember how much you laughed”: RYAW, 27.
Index
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Note: Titles by Richard Yates are listed in their alphabetical place. Women are listed by their maiden names.
Abbott, Raymond
Abels, Cyrilly
Académie Julian (Paris)
Adams, Alice
Alabama, Yates in
alcohol
as medication
and writing
See also Yates, Richard, drinking and alcoholism of
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Alexander, Dr.
Algren, Nelson
Allen, Woody
Alpert, Hollis
America
American Express
American Library Association
Amherst College
Andreasen, Nancy
Angell, Roger
final rejection letter from New Yorker
Anglesea Pub (London)
anti-Semitism
Argosy
Arlen, Michael
Artists for Victory
Associated Willkie Clubs of America
Associated Writing Programs
Atheneum
athletics, school
Atlantic-Little, Brown
Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic Monthly Press
Atlas, James
Auburn State Prison
Austen, Jane
Austin, Texas
The Avonian school newspaper
Avon Old Farms school
Babaril estate
Bachelor
Balanchine, George
Baldwin, James
Bantam Books
anthology of stories published by, collected by Yates
Bard College
Barker (Kowalsky), Ann
“The B.A.R. Man”
characters and plot
Baron, Richard
Barrett, B. L.
Barth, John
Battle of the Ardennes (“Bulge”)
Baturka, Natalie
Beattie, Ann
Bedford Street apartment
Bedford VA Hospital
Beechwood estate
Beekley, Mason
Behan, Brendan
Bell, Madison Smartt
Bell, Marvin
Bellevue Hospital (New York City)
Bellow, Saul
“Bells in the Morning”
Benedict, Russell
Benedict, Stephen
Bennington College
Berger, Thomas
Bernays, Anne
Berriault, Gina
Berryman, John
“The Best of Everything”
characters and plot
TV adaptation
Beury, Barbara Singleton
Bialek, Doris
Bialek, Mary
Bicycle Café (Los Angeles)
Bigelow, David
Bigler, Julia Ann (Yates’s maternal great-grandmother)
Blue Mill (New York City)
Bluestone, George
Bogdanovich, Peter
bohemianism
Bonnie (a Yates girlfriend)
Book-of-the-Month Club
Borno, Andy
Boroff, David
Bostelman, Mr.
Boston
Yates moves to
Yates’s apartments in
Boston University
Richard Yates Collection
Botany Mills
Botteghe Oscure
Bourjaily, Vance
Bowen, Natalie
Bradfield, Scott
Bradford, Governor William
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award
Braudy, Susan
Brautigan, Richard
Bray, Bill
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
The Bridge at Remagen (film script)
Brodigan, Michael
Bronxville High School
Brooks, Cleanth
Brooks Brothers (clothiers)
Brown, Dr. (in Iowa)
Broyard, Anatole
marries
negative reviews of Yates’s work
womanizing of
Brustein, Robert
Bryant, Charles, Jr. (Sheila’s brother)
mental breakdown of
present life
teaches Yates to drive
Bryant, Charles (Sheila’s father)
Bryant, Sheila (Yates’s first wife)
acting experience
compatibility with Yates
divorce from Yates
early life
fights with Yates
final meetings with Yates
first baby
ghostwriting for Yates
jobs
learns to drive
in London
manuscript typing and grammar corrections of Yates’s writing by
married life
m
eets and marries Yates
present life
reunions with Yates
second baby
separations from Yates
Buchman, Frank
“Builders”
characters and plot
Buitenhuis, Peter
Burr, Winthrop
Cabau, Jacques
Cain, Blanchard “Jerry”
Cain, Jessie
Cain, Robin
Calvinism
Camp Pickett (Virginia)
Canadian Broadcasting Company
“The Canal”
characters and plot
Candels, Lothar
Cannes, Yateses in
Cape Cod
Carole (a Yates girlfriend)
Carver, Raymond
Casey, John
Cassill, Kay
Cassill, R. Verlin
Clem Anderson by
Cavendish Trading Corporation
Central Islip Hospital (Long Island, N.Y.)
Central Oregon Community College
Chambrun, Jacques
Chantal (Sheila’s friend in Paris)
Chappell, Fred
characters, Yates’s
autobiographical nature of
development of
exposing the limitations of
names of, thinly disguised
Charm
Cheever, John
Cheever, Susan
Chekhov, Anton
Cheuse, Alan
Chicago Tribune
Child, Julia
Child, Paul
Childress, Dan
Chrysler Museum
Chumley’s (New York City)
Ciardi, John
Cincinnati Art Academy
City Center (New York City)
Civil Rights Bill
Clark, Geoffrey
Clayton, Jack
Cleveland, Clarissa Antoinette (Yates’s paternal grandmother)
clothing
and breeding
dress code at prep schools
See also Yates, Richard, clothing and style
Cocks, Jay
Cold Spring Harbor
characters and plot
film adaptation project
reviews of
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Collier’s
Columbia Pictures
Columbia University
School of General Studies
Commentary
“A Compassionate Leave”
characters and plot
“The Comptroller and the Wild Wind”
characters and plot
Connell, Evan
Connolly, Paul
Conrad, Joseph
Conroy, Frank
“A Convalescent Ego”
Coover, Robert
Corman, Roger
Cosmopolitan
Costello, Mark
Cox, Elizabeth
Craige (a Yates girlfriend)
Crane, Stephen
Crossroads Irish Pub
Crumley, Jim
Cubeta, Paul
Cullinan, Elizabeth
Cuomo, George
Curtis Brown agency
Cushman, Elisabeth
Cushman, Howard
Cushman, Nancy
Cutler, Bruce
Cuttmacher, Alan F.
Dalrymple, Jean
Dalton, Elizabeth
Dalton School
Daly, Dorothy
Darke County, Ohio
David, Larry
David, Saul
Davison, Peter
“dead white males”
Delacorte
Dell
Delynn, Jane
Democratic Party
Dempsey, Jack
Derrick, Clarence
Deux Magots (Paris)
DeVoto, Avis
Dewey, Donna
Dial
Dickens, Charles
Dickey, James
Didion, Joan
Dintenfass, Mark
Discovery
Disney, Walt
Disturbing the Peace
characters and plot
reviews of
sales
writing of
Dobson, John
“Doctor Jack-o’-Lantern”
characters and plot
Doctorow, E. L.
Doe, Sue
Doel, Frances
Doherty, Bob
Donleavy, J. P.
Donoso, José
Dostoyevsky
Douglas, Mitch
Douglas “Something” (in London)
Downing, Catherine
drinking
Yates’s encouragement of
See also Yates, Richard, drinking and alcoholism
Dubus, Andre
eulogy of Yates
Dubus, Pat
Dufault, Peter Kane
Duncan, Isadora
Dunne, John Gregory
Dutton
Earley, Tony
Easter Bonnet Tea Dance
The Easter Parade
autobiographical nature of
characters and plot
film and TV adaptation projects
publication
reprints
reviews of
sales
Éditions Robert Laffont
Edward, Thomas R.
Eimerl, Sarel
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
characters and plot
publication
reprints
reviews of
sales
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Ellison, Ralph
Emerson College
“The End of the Great Depression”
Engle, Paul
Episcopalians
Epstein, Leslie
Epstein, Miriam
Epstein, Seymour
Esquire
Estabrook, Reed
Evans, Evans
“Evening on the Côte d’Azur”
characters and plot
Express
Fagin, Barbara
Fagin, Gemma
Fagin, Mary
Fairfield Hospital (Connecticut)
Farber, Jackie
Faulkner, William
Feld, Ross
Fess (friend of Sheila’s)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Crack-Up
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Five Kinds of Dismay project
Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
Fleischer, Larry
Flesch, Rudolf
Flynn, Harry
Food Field Reporter
Ford, Elise
Ford, Ford Madox
Ford, Richard
“Forgive Our Foolish Ways” (early story)
characters and plot
“Forms of Entertainment” (lost story)
Forster, E. M.
“Foursome” (lost story)
France, Yateses moving to
France, Anatole
Frankenheimer, John
Franklin Simon (clothiers)
Frede, Richard
Friedman, Bruce Jay
Frost, Robert
Frye, Northrop
“Fun with a Stranger”
Funk & Wagnall’s
Gaiser, Carolyn
“The Game of Ambush”
Gannett, Lewis
Garelick, Jon
Garrett, George
Geer, Will
Gehman, Richard
General Electric Company
Gentry
Gerber, John
German immigrants in the Midwest
The Getaway (early version of Revolutionary Road)
Gieves and Hawkes
Gilhooley, Marjorie
Gingrich, Arnold
Ginsberg, Allen
Glamour
“A Glutton for Punishment”
characters and plot
Godoy, Arturo
Gold, Herbert
Golditch (lawyer)
Goldwasser, Jim
Goldwasser, Tom
Goldwyn, Sam, Jr.
“A Good and Gallant Woman”
A Good School
characters and plot
publication
reprints
reviews of
sales
Gotham Book Mart (New York City)
Gottlieb, Robert
Grace Church School (New York City)
Graham, Sheilah
Grand Street
Grassi, Andrea
Green, Hannah
Greenville, Ohio
Greenwich Village, New York
Greenwood Press
Grumman Aviation
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guild, Nicholas
Guirey, Mr.
Guthman, Edwin
Hale, Nancy
Halifax Courier and Guardian
Halloran Hospital (Staten Island)
Harper’s
Harris, Robert
Harrison, William
Hartford, Conn.
Harvard Club (New York City)
Harvard Extension
Harvard University
Harwood, Mr.
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Hawkes, John
Haydn, Hiram
Hayes, Harold
Hayes, Helen
Hecht, Dr. George
Heller, Joseph
Hemingway, Ernest
Hendrie, Don
Henry, DeWitt
Hetzel, Jennifer
Hicks, Granville
High Hedges, St. James, Long Island
Hills, Rust
hippies
Hippler, Shelley
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hoagland, Edward
Hodgson Portable Chapel
Hollins Writing Conference
Hollywood
effect on writers
producers
Yates in
Holm, Celeste
Holt
homosexuality
prep school jokes about
Yates’s fear of being identified with
Yates’s intolerance of
Houghton-Mifflin
housekeeping
Dookie’s avoidance of
Sheila’s excellent
Yates’s idea of
Howard, Maureen
Hoyt, Bud
Hudson, Helen
Hudson Review
Hudson Street (New York City)
Humphrey, William
Hunter, Commander (at Avon)
Hunter, “Ret”
Hunter, Ross
Hunter High School (New York City)
International Writers’ Workshop
Iowa, University of
Iowa City, Yates in
Iowa Workshop
Yates seeks tenure at
IQ test, Yates’s
Ireland
IRS
Irving, John
Jacobs, Hayes
Jacobus, Lee
Jaffe, Marc
James, Henry
James, William
Jamison, Kay
Jarrell, Randall
Jennings, Irv
Joan (Yates’s girlfriend overseas)
“Jody Rolled the Bones”
characters and plot
John Birch Society
Johnson, Johnny