485 “a favorable review in Commentary!”: James Atlas, journal, 4 Sept. 1987, James Atlas Papers, NYPL–Berg.

  486 “heated discussion”: Edwin McDowell, “Roth and Rhodes Books Get Critics Circle Awards,” New York Times, 12 Jan. 1988.

  486 “Circle Jerk Prize”: JC, journal, 12 Jan. 1988.

  487 “broken down and, like a substance”: WW, 193.

  487 “I felt the great good fortune”: PR’s remarks on accepting the Grinzane Literary Masters Award, 17 Apr. 2007, PRPP.

  488 “Throw the pills down the toilet”: PR—memo.

  488 “Just get on with it!”: RM int. PR, n.d. [c. late spring 1997].

  488 “Is he still in there”: PR—memo.

  488 “back to exercising”: NFMB, 166.

  488 “a sham”: Ibid., 167. PR notes that the Times article in question appeared 11 July 2002.

  488 “should be shunned like cyanide”: William Styron, “Prozac Days, Halcion Nights,” Nation, 4–11 Jan. 1993, 18.

  489 “My career is over”: NFMB, 165.

  489 “vivacious” and “sound”: WW, xii.

  491 “the ordeal verges”: Styron, “Prozac Days, Halcion Nights,” 20.

  492 “Innocent?!”: HM int. Joanna Clark, 30 June 2007.

  492 “little or nothing to say”: NFMB, 182.

  494 “There are many people”: Quoted in R. B. Kitaj, Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter, ed. Eckhart J. Gillen (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2017), 368.

  495 “Philip Roth is coming back”: “Page Six,” New York Post, 29 Mar. 1988.

  495 Bloom “went crazy”: PR, holograph notes re CB, undated [c. 1991], PRPP.

  495 “She’s crying again”: NSM.

  495 “impersonal hotel room”: James Atlas, journal, 4 Sept. 1987.

  496 “At 55, Norman Manea is a plumpish, balding”: PR, “I Couldn’t Restrain Myself,” New York Times Book Review, 21 June 1992, 3.

  496 “his ridiculous, self-awarded”: Quoted in JU, “Of Sickened Times,” New Yorker, 16 Nov. 1992, 135.

  496 “to some central headquarters”: Steve Paulson int. PR, “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” 20 Nov. 2007; PR provided me with a CD recording of this radio interview.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

  501 “How she got from telling me”: NFMB, 233.

  501 Roth’s “line of questioning”: Email from Anna Steiger to BB, 6 Dec. 2015.

  503 “performance of virtue defiled”: Ibid.

  504 “Are you crazy?”: Daniel Treiman, “How Philip Roth Changed Ehud Olmert’s Mind,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 4 Dec. 2012.

  504 lunch “quickly degenerated”: Bernard Avishai, Promiscuous: “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 143–44.

  505 “Are you married, Dave?”: CPR, 151.

  505 “a fairly good stand-in for my mother”: P, 611.

  505 “Either you’re dead”: PR to James Atlas, 12 Mar. 1983, James Atlas Papers, NYPL–Berg.

  506 “monitoring the caloric intake”: F, 320.

  506 “Always tell them you’re ten years older”: Christopher Lydon int. PR, Open Source, 29 May 2006.

  506 “threw her hands up”: NFMB, 49.

  507 “ ‘Why can’t he learn to control himself?’ ”: Ibid., 54.

  507 “What kind of people are we?”: CPR, 150.

  507 “I imagined that somewhere”: “Philip Roth: My True Story,” BBC Arena documentary, 1993; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G8Z2vrLpzA.

  507 “defunct warship driving blindly into shore”: P, 729.

  508 “retrace the steps”: F, 310.

  508 “I’m tired of the make-up”: PR to Mildred Martin, 26 Nov. 1986, PRPP.

  509 “the dummy is always smarter”: CPR, 240.

  510 Reviews of The Facts: Rhoda Koenig, New York, 19 Sept. 1988; JU’s “Briefly Noted” New Yorker review was reprinted in Odd Jobs (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), 380.

  510 “Everything delighted him”: CPR, 263.

  511 “I played on his feelings”: PR to Edward Hoagland, 26 Mar. 1989.

  511 “I just want to teach”: PR to Joe Murphy, 27 Apr. 1988, PRPP.

  513 “Shakespeare is more important”: Craig Lambert, “Fifteen Percent of Immortality,” Harvard Magazine, July–Aug. 2010, 46.

  515 “I had lunch with Andrew Wylie”: Edwin McDowell, “Roth Changes Houses,” New York Times, 16 Aug. 1989.

  516 “This is not a subject”: Roger Cohen, “Roth’s Publishers: The Spurned and the Spender,” New York Times, 9 Apr. 1990.

  516 “A spy swears she heard Straus remark”: “Rush & Molloy,” New York Daily News, 20 Nov. 1995, 17.

  516 “No good to me at all”: CPR, 263.

  516 “part soldier, part monk”: LDH, 174.

  517 “vegetable caviar and cheeseless cheese”: RGS, Sistermony (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1995), 99.

  518 “the old Pan American highway”: PR to JU, 20 Sept. 1989, JU Papers, HU–HL.

  518 “Which of my friends is most frightened”: DP.

  518 “a warm, competent, cheery young woman”: NFMB, 216.

  519 “It would be better”: P, 720.

  519 “easily the most wrenching decision”: PR to TS, 14 Dec. 1989, TS Papers, NYPL–M&A.

  520 “which she did willingly and quite beautifully”: NFMB, 53–54.

  520 “Generally, after standing beside”: Ibid., 43.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

  522 “responses to being so vilified”: Salman Rushdie, “Beginning of a Novelist’s Thralldom,” Observer, 26 Feb. 1989, 47.

  523 “Watching people walk back”: WW, 223.

  524 “beat Stockholm any day”: PR to Peter Godwin, 16 Feb. 2013, PRPP.

  524 “eternal political discussions”: PR, “In Defense of Intimacy,” Sunday Times Magazine (London), 20 May 1984, 51.

  524 “There appears to be a controversy”: WW, 227–28.

  525 “Look at those hideous faces!”: PR—memo.

  526 “Eventually I had to ask her”: NFMB, 161.

  526 “Some weeks after [Herman’s] funeral”: Ibid., 163.

  527 “Shameful. The most shameful thing”: Ibid., 164.

  527 “all conversations should be summarized”: PR to Alison Lurie, 13 Feb. [1967], PRPP.

  527 “I’ve gotten down to basics”: James Atlas, journal, 22 Oct. 1989, James Atlas Papers, NYPL–Berg.

  527 “You love Maria more”: PR to Jacquie Rogers, 26 Jan. 1987, TR–PSU.

  527 “cold, alarmed, and unwelcoming”: LDH, 183.

  527 “raising the moral stakes”: PR to Julian Mitchell, 10 Nov. 2010, Julian Mitchell Archive, BL.

  528 “literature is not a moral beauty contest”: NFMB, 195.

  529 “How dare you represent me”: PR—memo.

  529 “Why didn’t you stop it?”: BB int. David Rieff, 13 Oct. 2012.

  529 “vomit-stained manuscript of Deception”: NFMB, 193.

  530 “His chinless head”: Stephen Schiff, “Rothballs,” Vanity Fair, Apr. 1990, 71.

  531 Reviews of Deception: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, 5 Mar. 1990; Fay Weldon, New York Times Book Review, 11 Mar. 1990; Hermione Lee, New Republic, 30 Apr. 1990, 39–42.

  532 “Chicago intellectual and Persian rug dealer”: Quoted in Mary Wisniewski, Algren (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016), 127.

  533 “reborn” after bypass surgery: NFMB, 207.

  534 “being in the world alone”: NSM.

  534 “did not wish again to turn”: NFMB, 202.

  534 “basically it comes down”: Peter J. Smith, “Cruel and Unusual,” New York, 21 Oct. 1996, 31.

  535 “a lot of shaky old men”: James Atlas, Bellow (New York: Random House, 2000), 554.

  535 “Chekhovian” ambience: PR to Saul Bellow, 11 June 1990, Saul Bellow Papers, UC.

  536 “didn’t get much of a kick”: David Remnick, “Into the Clear,” New Yorker, 8 May 2000, 85.

  536 “Stay away from Saul today”: Edward Rothstein, “Saul Bellow, Saul Bellow, Let Down Your Hair,” New York Times, 9 Apr. 2005.

  536 “I thought it disgusting”: Atlas, Bellow, 489.

  536 “Why write three novels”: Andrea Chambers, “Philip Roth,” People, 19 Dec. 1983.

  537 “in the dumps”: Saul Bellow: Letters, ed. Benjamin Taylor (New York: Penguin, 2010), 430.

  537 “did the Nobel Prize winner”: PR to RGS, 17 Apr. 1986, RGS Papers, UC.

  538 “Native American Flannery O’Connor”: PR to Edward Hoagland, 4 Nov. 1983.

  539 “Now you love me”: RM int. PR, 9 Jan. 2007.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

  540 Reviews of Patrimony: Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 1 Jan. 1991; Neal Kozodoy, Commentary, May 1991, 52–54; Rhoda Koenig, New York, 21 Jan. 1991, 70; John Leonard, New York Newsday, 19 Mar. 1992.

  540 “might not have liked some things”: CPR, 272.

  541 “You made it! You made it!”: DP.

  542 “Adultery makes numerous bad marriages”: NFMB, 281.

  543 “I’m free, I’m nineteen”: Quoted in RGS, Sistermony (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1995), 45.

  544 “And now when I tell”: Esther B. Fein, “Philip Roth Sees Double. And Maybe Triple, Too,” New York Times, 9 Mar. 1993.

  548 Reviews of Operation Shylock: Paul Gray, Time, 8 Mar. 1993, 69; Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 4 Mar. 1993; JU, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 1993, 109–12; D. M. Thomas, New York Times Book Review, 7 Mar. 1993, 1; S. T. Meravi’s review in the 23 July 1993 Jerusalem Post is quoted in Mark Shechner, Up Society’s Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003), 210.

  548 “the fastidious goy critics”: James Atlas, Bellow (New York: Random House, 2000), 502.

  548 Updike’s mixed review of The Anatomy Lesson: CPR, 188.

  548 “a lovely act of readership”: JU to PR, 28 Aug. [1990], PR–LC.

  550 “He’s very uxorious”: Stephen Schiff, “Rothballs,” Vanity Fair, Apr. 1990, 78.

  550 “I have to go backstage now”: BB int. Judith Dunford, 29 Mar. 2013.

  550 “everything was perfect, but”: BB int. Jonathan Brent, 31 Mar. 2014.

  552 “No more letters!”: RM int. PR, n.d. [c. late spring 1997].

  554 “My life is a problem”: NSM.

  555 “lonely and lost”: PR to Daniel Stern, 8 Feb. [1971?], Daniel Stern Papers, Ransom.

  555 “I’m a journeyman who paints”: Grant Pick, “Chicago Lives: Sanford Roth and the Art of Living,” Chicago Reader, 30 Mar. 1995.

  555 “It’s Sandy’s paintings, not my books”: “People,” Time, 14 Mar. 1988, 93.

  555 “Even when I am disabled”: NFMB, 219.

  556 “You can’t stay here”: Ibid.

  556 “two of the cruelest people in the world”: LDH, 199.

  556 “Are you sure you love me?”: HM int. RGS, 2 June 2007.

  557 “It’s hopeless”: NFMB, 276.

  558 “A spa?! What the fuck”: BB int. “Inga Larsen,” 9 Nov. 2014.

  558 “angry, remote”: LDH, 200.

  558 “Look at her!”: Ibid., 203.

  559 “went nuts”: RM int. PR, 19 Mar. 2005.

  560 “At this she made a grotesque face”: NFMB, 160.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

  562 “Never better”: LDH, 215.

  563 “As for my ‘human ties’ ”: NFMB, 243.

  563 “I am not signing any agreement!”: Ibid., 246.

  563 “This isn’t working,” said Beslow: RM int. PR, 19 Mar. 2005.

  564 “the cruel and inhuman treatment”: LDH, 220.

  565 “There would be time enough later”: NFMB, 264.

  565 “a love poem”: “Inga Larsen” to PR, 9 Apr. 1995, PRPP.

  566 “a sitting duck for Sabbath’s”: PR to TS, 24 July 1995, TS Papers, NYPL–M&A.

  567 “We’re organizing a support group”: PR to Hermione Lee, 14 June 2010, PRPP.

  568 Two of the three New York judges: RM int. PR, 19 Mar. 2005.

  569 “against [her] lawyer’s strong advice”: LDH, 226.

  571 “But why are you doing this?”: NSM.

  571 “No more women”: PR to Charlotte Maurer, 20 Mar. 1994, PR–LC.

  572 “I hardly had time to say hello”: NFMB, 270.

  573 “wearing over her seductive form”: Ibid., 272.

  573 “Has the author an axe”: Libel report for Jonathan Cape (PR’s U.K. publisher) prepared by Michael Rubinstein, 8 Dec. 1992, PRPP.

  574 “Mr. President, do I have to”: BB int. PR, 12 July 2012.

  574 “He seemed fine as soon”: BB int. William Luers, 27 Sept. 2014.

  576 “completely impersonal” shtick: LDH, 242.

  576 “Maybe it was the irrepressible joy”: NFMB, 287.

  577 “He granted me an hour’s audience”: RGS journal, 12 Apr. 1996, RGS Papers, UC.

  577 felt in need of “catharsis”: Rafael Garcia-Navarro, “Roth’s Revenger Tragedy,” Spectator, 16 Jan. 1999, 21.

  578 “brutally candid”: Kim Hubbard, “Life with Portnoy,” People, 28 Nov. 1996.

  CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

  583 “The death of Morty sets the gold standard”: NFMB, 43.

  584 Reviews of Sabbath’s Theater: Martin Amis’s review in the Sunday Times (London) was reprinted in The War Against Cliché (New York: Vintage, 2001), 294–96; Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 22 Aug. 1995; Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 1995; William H. Pritchard, New York Times Book Review, 10 Sept. 1995.

  585 “a bit more company than the typewriter”: PR to Edward Hoagland, 8 Sept. 1995.

  586 “to the candy store and the borscht belt born”: CPR, 69.

  586 “I felt so ashamed”: BB int. Jack Miles, 16 Jan. 2014.

  586 “purity to their rage”: RU, 207.

  588 “Updike and Bellow hold their flashlights”: CPR, 154.

  588 “His hero is a Toyota salesman”: Ibid., 151.

  589 “The more I learned about gloves”: PR’s notes for Norman Manea’s Contemporary Masters class at Bard, fall 1999, PRPP.

  589 a “historical inevitability”: Ronald Smothers, “In Riots’ Shadow, a City Stumbles On,” New York Times, 17 July 1997, 1, B4.

  590 “The city of Newark stands”: Quoted in John T. Cunningham, Newark (Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1988), 342.

  590 “a smoke-darkened brick pile fifty years old”: AP, 15.

  591 “across the room after the first 60 pages”: Celia McGee, “Drama at the Book Awards,” New York Observer, 27 Nov. 1995, 27.

  592 “Norman, she cannot write”: BB int. Norman Manea, 16 Sept. 2013.

  593 “I wouldn’t look at the Times”: BB int. PR, 9 July 2012.

  594 “self-centered misogynist”: Dinitia Smith, “Claire Bloom Looks Back in Anger at Philip Roth,” New York Times, 17 Sept. 1996.

  595 Reviews of Leaving a Doll’s House: Marion Winik, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 1996; Patricia Bosworth, New York Times Book Review, 13 Oct. 1996; Daphne Merkin, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 1996, 105; Zoë Heller, London Review of Books, 20 Feb. 1997.

  596 “her obvious kindness, sincerity”: Peter J. Smith, “Cruel and Unusual,” New York, 21 Oct. 1996, 28.

  598 “I didn’t believe those things they said”: PR—memo.

  600 “I did not want interminable conferences”: NFMB, 1.

  600 “there are two sides to any divorce story”: Jack Miles’s letter appeared in New York Times Book Review, 10 Nov. 1996.

  CHAPTER FORTY

  604 “How can you be paid”: Max Wiener, “2 Teachers Defy Probe: Carlin Favors Dismissal; Lowenstein, Another in Balk,” Newark Evening News, 19 May 1955, 1.

  605 “no jeweled and nuanced thing”: PR to Jack Miles, 19 Apr. 2012.

  605 “overall a very thoughtful work”: Thomas Hine, “Don’t Blame Mrs. O’Leary,” New York Times Book Review, 15 July 1990.

  606 “Miller has given us”: Cheryl Kent, “What’s the Deal? A Look at Chicago’s Block 37 Misses the Chance to Explain How Big Cities Take Shape,” Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 1996.

  606 “I won’t tell him,” said Roth: BB int. Douglas Hobbie, 14 Dec. 2012.

  606 “serious and libelous distortions”: NSM.

  606 “uncertain and overwhelmed”: Ibid.

  608 “as though he were writing”: Ibid.

  609 “What do you think the New York Post”: PR to BB, 22 July 2013.

  611 Reviews of American Pastoral: Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 15 Apr. 1997; Louis Menand, New Yorker, 19 May 1997, 88–94.

  613 “a born-again Philip Roth”: Norman Podhoretz, “The Adventures of Philip Roth,” Commentary, Oct. 1998.

  613 “I would like you to excise”: PR to Chris Coffin, 4 Mar. 1998, PRPP.

  614 “Roth is Niagara”: Cynthia Ozick to PR, 26 Jan. 1997, PR–LC.

  615 “Here was this big writer”: Tad Friend, “Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, 26 May 1997, 29.

  616 “infuriatingly gorgeous”: Gail Caldwell, Boston Globe, 20 Apr. 1997.

  CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

  618 “too high-maintenance and flighty”: Jennifer Senior, “Humor Came Her,” New York, 17 May 1999.

  623 “My schedule is absolutely”: David Remnick, “Into the Clear,” New Yorker, 8 May 2000, 89.

  623 “Stand up straight!”: PR to RGS, 9 Apr. 1989, RGS Papers, UC.

  624 “Everybody wants to write a book”: Bernie Swerdlow to Robert Lowenstein, 6 June 1988, PR–LC.

  624 “What level of happiness”: BB int. Howard Silver, 13 Nov. 2013.

  624 “Don’t mention Claire’s name!”: BB int. Robert Heyman, 3 July 2012.

  631 “Don’t think I’m second banana”: BB int. PR, 8 July 2012.

  632 “According to [Anthony] Hecht”: Zachary Leader, The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915–1964 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), 467.

  632 “Saul, how could you marry five women?”: BB int. PR, 10 July 2012.

  633 “toxic response to his character”: James Atlas, Bellow (New York: Random House, 2000), ix.

  633 “I warned you about that”: James Atlas, journal, 4 Sept. 1987, James Atlas Papers, NYPL–Berg.

  633 “I had grown up in Chicago”: Atlas, Bellow, xi.