My Generation (65 page)

“A Friend's Farewell to James Jones,”
New York
, June 6, 1977, pp. 40-41. Memoir of Jones. Collected in the 1982 edition of
This Quiet Dust
as “James Jones.” Replaced with a different reminiscence of Jones in the 1993 expanded edition.

“A Farewell to Arms,”
New York Review of Books
, June 23, 1977, pp. 3–6. Review of Philip Caputo,
A Rumor of War
. Collected in
This Quiet Dust
(1982).

“Hell Reconsidered,”
New York Review of Books
, June 29, 1978, pp. 10–14. Review of Richard Rubenstein,
The Cunning of History
. Collected in
This Quiet Dust
(1982).

“Almost a Rhodes Scholar,”
South Atlantic Bulletin
45 (May 1980), 1–7. Memoir. Collected in
This Quiet Dust
(1982).

“Perennial Fear,”
New York Times
, June 7, 1981, p. 21. On warfare.

“Honored Virginian Honors Virginia,”
Newport News Times-Herald
, July 18, 1981, p. 7. Acceptance speech for the Virginian of the Year award.

“A Leader Who Prefers Writers to Politicians,”
Boston Globe
, July 26, 1981, pp. A21, 24. On the inauguration of Mitterrand. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008) as
“Les Amis du Président.”

“In the Southern Camp,”
New York Review of Books
, August 13, 1981, pp. 24–26. Review of C. Vann Woodward, ed.,
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
. Collected in
This Quiet Dust
(1982).

“William Styron's Nile Diary,”
Geo
3 (September 1981), 10–24. Travel. Collected in
This Quiet Dust
(1982) as “Down the Nile.”

“Recollections,”
Hartford Courant Magazine
, January 3, 1982, pp. 4–9. On the composition of
Lie Down in Darkness
. Collected in
This Quiet Dust
(1982) as
“Lie Down in Darkness.”

“The Short Classy Voyage of JFK,”
Esquire
, December 1983, pp. 124 ff. Memoir.

“Children of a Brief Sunshine,”
Architectural Digest
, March 1984, pp. 32 ff. Reflections on Shirley, the antebellum Virginia mansion on the James River. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“Historic Houses: Thomas Wolfe Remembered,”
Architectural Digest
, October 1984, pp. 194–200. On Wolfe's childhood home in Asheville, N.C.

“In Celebration of Capote,”
Vanity Fair
, December 1984, pp. 120–22. Memoir. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008) as “Celebrating Capote.”

“Cigarette Ads and the Press,”
Nation
, March 7, 1987, pp. 283 ff. On advertisements for tobacco products. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“Death Row,”
New York Times
, May 10, 1987, p. 25E. Op-ed, on Shabaka Sundiata Waglini. Reprinted
New York Times
, September 30, 1990, sect. 4A, p. 2. Collected in the expanded edition of
This Quiet Dust
(1993).

“Virginia Foster Durr,”
Esquire
, June 1987, p. 161. Appreciation.

“Jimmy in the House,”
New York Times Book Review
, December 20, 1987, p. 30. Memoir. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008).

“Family Album,”
Paris Review
, Spring 1988, pp. 269–87. Photographs with commentary.

“Farbar: The Crime and the Punishment,”
Esquire
, September 1988, p. 154. Article about Buzz Farbar.

“International Books of the Year,”
Times Literary Supplement
, December 2–8, 1988, p. 1342. Praise for Roy Gutman,
Banana Diplomacy
.

“Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died,”
New York Times
, December 19, 1988, p. A17. Op-ed. Collected in the expanded edition of
This Quiet Dust
(1993).

“A Literary Friendship,”
Esquire
, April 1989, pp. 154 ff. Memoir of James Jones. Reprinted as the foreword to
To Reach Eternity
(1989). See Section B. Collected in the 1993 expanded edition of
This Quiet Dust
as “James Jones,” where it replaces a 1977 memoir of Jones listed above.

“The Distant Shaw,”
Vanity Fair
, August 1989, pp. 48 ff. Memoir of Irwin Shaw. Collected in
My Generation
(2015); a shortened version of the
Vanity Fair
text follows Styron's original beginning, published for the first time.

“A Voice from the South,”
Sewanee Review
97 (Fall 1989), 512–24. Memoir of Styron's paternal grandmother. Collected in the expanded edition of
This Quiet Dust
(1993).

“Darkness Visible,”
Vanity Fair
, December 1989, pp. 212 ff. The initial version of Styron's memoir of depression, later expanded for book publication.

“In Praise of Vineyard Haven,”
New York Times Magazine
, June 15, 1990, p. 30. On Styron's summer home. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008) as “ ‘In Vineyard Haven.' ”

“Presentation to E. L. Doctorow of the Howells Medal,”
Proceedings of the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters
, 2nd series, no. 41 (1990). Styron's speech on presenting the medal to Doctorow for
Billy Bathgate
.

“Dear Dirty Dublin: My Joycean Trek with Philip Roth,”
New York Times Book Review
, June 9, 1991, p. 9. Remarks on presenting the National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature to Roth.

“We Weren't in It for the Money,”
Washington Post
, July 16, 1991, p. A19. Styron's account of his service as a judge for the Turner Tomorrow Award. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“The Wreckage of an American War,”
New York Times Book Review
, July 16, 1991, p. 71. Review of Lewis B. Puller,
Fortunate Son
. Collected in the expanded edition of
This Quiet Dust
(1993).

“On William Blackburn and Creative Imagination,”
Duke Dialogue
, September 13, 1991. On his college mentor.

“The Little Pills That Depress,”
Newsday
, July 31, 1991. Adapted from a speech on depression.

“Nat Turner Revisited,”
American Heritage
42 (October 1992), 64–73. On the controversy over
The Confessions of Nat Turner
. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“Prozac Days, Halcion Nights,”
Nation
256 (January 4/11,1993), pp. 1 ff. On the Upjohn company. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“The Enduring Metaphors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima,”
Newsweek
, January 11, 1993, pp. 28–29. On the aftermath of World War II. A longer version, from the surviving typescript, collected in
My Generation
(2015) as “Auschwitz and Hiroshima.”

“ ‘An Interior Pain That Is All but Indescribable,' ” Newsweek, April 18, 1994, pp. 52–53. On depression. Collected in
My Generation
(2015) as “Interior Pain.”

“Slavery's Pain, Disney's Gain,”
New York Times
, August 4, 1994, p. A23. Op-ed on Disney's plans for a Civil War theme park. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008).

“Too Big for Disney,”
Washington Post
, August 16, 1994, p. A19. On the proposed Disney theme park.

Untitled statement by Styron about
Brown v. Board of Education, American Heritage
45 (December 1994), 84.

“ ‘I'll Have to Ask Indianapolis—' ”
Traces
(Indiana Historical Society) 7 (Spring 1995),
5–12. On the expurgation of
Lie Down in Darkness
in 1951. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008).

Untitled statement about
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New Yorker
, June 26–July 3, 1995, pp. 132–33. A longer version, from the surviving typescript, is collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008) as “A Literary Forefather.”

“The Writer in a Mean and Dogmatic Time,”
Confrontation: A Literary Journal of Long Island University
56/57 (Summer/Fall 1995), 15–20. Acceptance speech for the 27th Annual Literary Award of the National Arts Club, New York City, delivered February 1, 1995.

“Last-Minute Pleas,”
New Yorker
, August 14, 1995, p. 26. Statement on Mumia Abu-Jamal.

“The Book on
Lolita
,”
New Yorker
, September 4, 1995, p. 33. On the rejection of
Lolita
at Random House. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“A Case of the Great Pox,”
New Yorker
, September 18, 1995, pp. 62–75. Memoir. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008).

“A Horrid Little Racist,”
New York Times Magazine
, October 8, 1995, pp. 80–81. Memoir. Styron's title in the surviving MS is “A Youthful Transgression.”

“Transcontinental with Tex,”
Paris Review
, Spring 1996, pp. 215–26. Memoir of Terry Southern. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008).

“Havanas in Camelot,”
Vanity Fair
, July 1996, pp. 32–41. Memoir of John F. Kennedy. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008).

“Nat Turner Turns 30,”
Boston Globe
, April 13, 1997, p. D1. On the novel and its history of controversy.

“Fifty Years of Literary Friendship,”
At Random
, no. 17 (Spring/Summer 1997), 3. Memoir of his friendship with Robert Loomis, his editor at Random House. Collected in
My Generation
(2015) as “Bob Loomis.”

“A Wheel of Evil Come Full Circle: The Making of
Sophie's Choice
,”
Sewanee Review
105 (Summer 1997), 395–400. Account of a friendship with Hannah Arendt and of the composition of the novel. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“A Modern Library Juror Fesses Up,”
New Yorker
, August 17, 1998, pp. 29–30. On an end-of-the-century literary contest. Collected in
Havanas in Camelot
(2008) as “Fessing Up.”

“American Dreamers,”
George
, August 1998, p. 76. Introduction by Styron: statements by others about various American citizens.

Untitled comment on the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal,
New Yorker
, October 12, 1998, p. 10. Collected in
My Generation
(2015) in a longer version, from the manuscript, titled “Clinton and the Puritans.”

“It Cannot Be Long: Remembering a Friend,”
Oxford American
, September/October 1999, p. 111. Memoir of Willie Morris. Collected in
My Generation
(2015).

“C. Vann Woodward: 1908–1999,”
Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
51 (2000), 92–95. Memoir. Collected in My
Generation
(2015).

“Why Great Fiction Will Never Die,”
MacDowell Colony Newsletter
30 (Winter/Spring 2002), 3–7. Speech on the occasion of presenting the MacDowell Medal to Philip Roth. Collected in
My Generation
(2015) as “The Contumacious Mr. Roth.”