Dan Wakefield - New York in the '50s

Macdonald, Dwight, 60, 151, 262, 285, 296–97

MacDowell Colony, 153

Mademoiselle , 52, 190, 270, 329

Magazine Management Company, 52

magazines, 52–53; aspiring writers at, 51–54, 68–70, 285–86, 320; “little,” 69; and psychoanalysis debate, 218, 219, 220–22, 224–25, 241; status of journalism, 288–89, 296–97. See also specific titles

Magid, Marion, 3, 22, 31, 46–47, 54, 62–63, 148, 166, 239, 240, 258, 339

Mailer, Adele, 112

Mailer, Bea, 144

Mailer, Norman, 112, 129, 232, 245, 258, 272, 289, 296, 330; Advertisements for Myself , 166, 221–22, 232, 239, 289; The Armies of the Night , 147; Barbary Shore , 144, 147; The Deer Park , 145, 146–47, 258, 265; The Executioner’s Song , 147; and jazz, 310–11; on Kerouac, 166, 167; on Krim, 133, 134; The Naked and the Dead , 142, 144, 147, 265; on psychoanalysis, 219, 220–22, 224; “The White Negro,” 112, 143, 220–22, 224, 289; wins Pulitzer Prizes, 147; writing for the Voice , 142–48

Malamud, Bernard, 286

Malaquais, Jean, 144

Manchurian Candidate, The (film), 304

Manhattan: and other boroughs, 21–22

Manhattan Tower (Kenton), 4, 20

Mann, Thomas, 244

Manning, Robert, 336

Manville, Bill, 288

Marie’s Crisis Café, 200, 214

marijuana, 42, 162, 172, 177, 182, 183, 232, 310, 332

Markson, David, 21, 128, 207

Marquand, John P., 16

Marx, Karl, 29, 30

Mason, Jackie, 313

Masses, The , 76

masturbation, 202, 205, 333

Maurin, Peter, 76, 79

Mayhall, Jane, 126, 154, 156, 239, 284, 301; Cousin to Human , 156

McCarthy, Joseph, 15, 81, 130, 140, 247–51, 257–60, 261, 262, 263, 264

McCarthy, Mary, 236, 239; The Group , 214, 232, 234

McCoy, Mary Ann (DeWeese), 7, 78–79, 80, 81–82, 85, 86–90, 92

McCullers, Carson, 106, 164–65, 239, 277, 294; appearance at Columbia, 278–80; Clock Without Hands , 279; The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , 6, 106, 278, 279; The Member of the Wedding , 278

McDarrah, Fred, 163

McDowell, David, 149

McDowell, Obolensky, 149, 150, 269

McGill, Ralph, 326

McGrath, Myrna, 267

McKay, Louis, 315, 316

McLean, Jackie, 304

McPartland, Marian, 306

McSorley’s saloon, 72

McWilliams, Carey, 65, 66, 67, 268

Meade, Julia, 58

media: NY as headquarters of, 36. See also journalism; magazines; newspapers; television

Melendez, Louie (pseudonym), 103–4, 109–10, 112–13, 114–15

Mencken, H. L., 60

Mercer, Mabel, 195, 214

Merman, Ethel, 6, 16

Merton, Thomas: The Seven Storey Mountain , 25

Metcalf-Volker bill, 108

Metropole, 298

Metropolitan Hospital, 108, 110

Metropolitan Opera, 6, 42

Meyer, Frank, 69, 261

Milam, J. W., 64

Miles, Barry, 181

military draft, 51

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 6, 61, 122, 159, 196, 198, 239

Miller, Arthur, 277

Miller, Henry, 183

Miller, Warren, 110, 114

Mills, C. Wright, 5, 23, 32–36, 51, 74, 256, 269, 271–74, 287, 322, 337; and Cuba, 272–73; death of, 273–74; as DW’s mentor, 59–60, 271; DW studies with, 32–36; DW works with, 51, 55–56, 58–60, 72; Listen, Yankee , 272, 273; The Power Elite , 5, 32, 287; White Collar , 5, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 247

Mills, Yara, 274

Millstein, Gilbert, 9, 162, 163–64, 166, 194

Minetta’s restaurant, 130

Mingus, Charles, III, 311–12

Mingus, Charlie, 6, 13, 111, 301, 304, 309, 311, 313

Minton, Walter, 147, 302

Mizener, Arthur: The Far Side of Paradise , 16

Modern Jazz Quartet, 113, 154, 301–2

Mohr, Charlie, 331–32

Mole, Miff, 299

Monk, Thelonious, 301, 307, 309–10, 311, 312, 314

Monroe, Marilyn, 318

Montgomery, Ann, 21, 54, 57, 142, 291

Moon Is Blue, The (play), 16

Morgan, Thomas B., 291

Moses, Robert, 119

Mount Sinai Hospital, 235

movies, see films and specific titles

Muhammad, Elijah, 324

Muñoz, Ramon, 96

Murrow, Edward R., 252

Museum of Modern Art, 43

music, 6, 42; at end of fifties, 334. See also jazz

Napoleon, Phil, 299

Nathan, George Jean, 277

Nation, The , 20, 44, 65–66, 68–69, 165, 179, 263, 268, 303; DW reports for, 5, 29, 39, 47, 63–67, 71, 72, 84, 85, 100, 112, 138, 155, 161, 164, 170, 172, 173, 197, 263, 314, 322, 326, 328; film reviews in, 276

National Review, The , 69, 261, 262, 268, 282

Navasky, Victor, 126

Naver, Mike, 33, 42, 45, 117

Nemiroff, Bob, 157, 158

New Criterion, The , 156

New Directions, 154

New Directions , 285

Newfield, Jack, 288

New Guard, The , 266

New Journalism, 132–33, 288–89, 296–97

New Letters , 186

Newman, Paul, 134

New Republic, The , 259, 286, 289

New School for Social Research, 144, 282

newspapers, 51, 60–61. See also specific titles

New Statesman , 263

Newsweek , 224, 236, 286

New World Writing , 28, 35, 142, 284

New York: apartment life, 57–58; arriving by train, 11–12; as capital of jazz, 298–318; Jews and culture of, 46–47; as laboratory, 42, 73; life in Spanish Harlem, 5, 7, 91–115; life in the Village, 116–59; lifestyle and communities in, 5–9; as mecca, 19–23, 42; in the nineties, 338–40; outer boroughs, 21; and politics, 244–64; romance and sexual relations in, 195–99; sexual relations in, 195–243; as writers’ city, 277–97; writers leaving at end of fifties, 334–36, 337; writers seeking work in, 48–55

New York Daily Mirror , 51, 141, 207

New York Daily News , 51

New Yorker, The , 21, 36, 40, 158, 199, 220, 234, 238, 282, 284, 303

New York Herald Tribune , 37

New York Philharmonic, 304

New York Post , 4, 51, 60, 63, 179, 207, 250, 259–60, 261, 287

New York Review of Books, The , 260

New York State Emergency Defense Act, 82

New York Times , 36, 37, 123, 252, 293, 294, 295, 325–26; ad on Castro, 245–46; Columbia correspondent for, 37–38; reviews Kerouac, 161–62, 163, 164

New York Times Book Review, The , 156, 178

New York World-Telegram , 51

Nichols, Mary Perot, 20, 119, 126, 130, 142, 196, 222–23

Nick’s, 299

Nieman fellowship: DW seeks and wins, 321, 328, 329, 336

Nietzsche, F. W., 30

“Night Beat” (TV), 275

Night of the Hunter (film), 276

nihilism, 109–10, 112–13

Nixon, Richard M., 54, 262, 264, 288

nonfiction writing, 287–97; novels vs., 288–89, 293. See also journalism

No Sun in Venice (film), 301

novels: aspirations to write, 286; films based on, 275; vs. nonfiction, 288–89

Oberon, Merle, 285

Obolensky, Ivan, 269

obscenity trials, 179, 183

O’Casey, Sean: Red Roses for Me , 200

O’Connor, Edwin, 69

Odetta, 318

O’Gorman, Ned, 8, 32, 78, 79, 87–88, 196, 339; Night of the Hammer , 80

O’Hara, Frank: “The Day Lady Died,” 317–18

O’Hara, John, 276

Olivier, Laurence, 16

O’Neill, Eugene, 75, 122, 341

On the Bowery (film), 140

Orlovsky, Lafcadio, 190, 191

Orlovsky, Peter, 184, 190, 191

Ortega y Gasset, J., 34

Orwell, George, 92, 300

Ostrow, Seymour, 107–8

pacifism, 82–84

Pack, Robert, 31

Page, Geraldine, 5, 120

Paglia, Camille, 238