Literary Rogues (32 page)

Oates, Joyce Carol, 245

Old Man and the Sea, The
(Hemingway), 134, 135

Olsen, Eric, 208

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(Kesey), 183

l20 Days of Sodom, The
(Sade), 11, 12

On the Road
(Kerouac), xv, 158, 159, 160, 183, 196

On Writing
(King), 138

Open City
, 226

opium (laudanum), 15, 17–18, 27, 41, 95, 96, 103–4

Balzac's book on, 60

Baudelaire's use of, 70, 75–76, 77–78

Byron's use of, 36

Coleridge's use of, 15, 17–18, 19–20, 26, 39, 76

De Quincey's use of, 23, 25–28, 51, 76, 234

Poe's use of, 51

Shelley's use of, 38, 39

Opium, L'
(Balzac), 60

Orlovsky, Peter, 167

Orne, Martin, 173, 174

Other Voices, Other Rooms
(Capote), 193, 228

Paradis artificiels, Les
(Baudelaire), 76–77

Paris, 111, 131, 155, 157, 167, 181, 237

Parker, Dorothy, xv, 64, 117–21, 122–25, 127–28, 156

Faulkner and, 140–41

Fitzgeralds and, 108, 115, 116, 122, 123

Hemingway and, 120, 121, 122

Mailer and, 187–88

Millay and, 121, 122, 125

Parker, Edie, 157

Parker, Edwin Pond, II, 118, 119, 122

Pemberton, John, 215–16

Penn, Sean, 203

Penn Magazine
, 52

Perkins, Maxwell, 109–10, 132, 134

Petites-Affiches
, 12

Philosophy in the Bedroom
(Sade), 11

Picasso, Pablo, 131

Picture of Dorian Gray, The
(Wilde), 97

Pinard, Ernest, 65

Plarr, Victor, 81, 92–93

Plath, Sylvia, 177–78

Plato, 98

Playboy
, 174, 189, 215

Plimpton, George, 199

Poe, Edgar Allan, 47, 48–56, 121, 212

Baudelaire and, 73

Poe, Virginia Clemm, 51, 52, 53

Poems and Ballads
(Swinburne), 77

Polidori, John, 41

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
(Thomas), 147

Pound, Ezra, 131

Présidente, Madame la, 5, 6, 9–10

“Priest” They Called Him, The
(Burroughs and Cobain), 168

printing press, 1–2

Prohibition, 104, 106, 141

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
(Wurtzel), 225, 226, 233

psilocybin, 159, 182

Queensberry, Marquess of, 96, 97, 98

Queer
(Burroughs), 165

Raimond, Madame de, 4

“Raven, The” (Poe), 52, 121

Reagan, Ronald, 214, 223, 224

Realists, 57–58, 63, 97, 99, 167

religion, 81

Catholicism, 77–78, 89, 162

“Renascence” (Millay), 121

Renascence and Other Poems
(Millay), 122

Revue de Paris, La
, 65

Rhymers' Club, 92, 100

Rhys, Ernest, 92

Rimbaud, Arthur, 82–83, 118, 146, 157, 204

Verlaine's relationship with, 84–89

Ritalin, 226, 227

Road of Excess, The: A History of Writers on Drugs
(Boon), 234

Roethke, Theodore, 75

Roiphe, Anne, 243

Rolling Stone
, 199, 200, 202, 205

Romances sans paroles
(Verlaine), 88

Romantics, 32, 57, 63, 73, 81, 99

Rose et Blanche
(Sand and Sandeau), 66

Ross, Robbie, 100

Rules of Attraction, The
(Ellis), 218, 219

Rum Diary, The
, 204

Rushdie, Salman, 218

Saboteur
, 124

Sade, Abbé de, 2–3, 5

Sade, Comte de, 2, 4, 6, 7

Sade, Marquis de, 1–14, 35, 96

sadism, 14

Sadler, Shelby, 205

St. Paul Daily News
, 109

Salome
(Wilde), 97

Salomon, Monique, 142

Salon
, 111

Sand, George, 65–67

Baudelaire and, 69–70

Sandburg, Carl, 109

Sandeau, Jules, 66

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 154

Save Me the Waltz
(Z. Fitzgerald), 113

Savoy, The
, 82, 99

Schaeffer, Glenn, 188, 208

Schwartz, Alan, 197

Seventeen
, 224

Seven Years' War, 32

sex, 154, 166, 182

Baudelaire and, 70, 71, 78

Byron and, 35–36

Ellis and, 220

Flaubert and, 64

Millay and, 121

Parker and, 119

Sade and, 3, 6–8, 9, 12, 13–14

see also
homosexuality

Sexton, Anne, 171, 173–74, 177, 178, 179

Sexton, Linda Gray, 173–74

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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