Dan Wakefield - New York in the '50s

Harlem, 72, 91, 93, 112

Harper’s Magazine , 105, 315

Harrington, Michael, 5, 122, 126, 130–31, 140–42, 158, 159, 168, 263, 269, 316, 320; and Catholic Worker movement, 77–78, 80, 86; Fragments of the Century , 77, 122, 141; The Other America , 80

Harris, Julie, 16, 277, 278

Harris, Reed, 247–50, 251, 256

Hart, Howard, 303

Hartley, Joe (“the Fox”), 298

Havens, Richie, 318

Hawkins, Coleman, 303

Hayden, Hiram, 282

Hayes, Harold, 21, 222, 265, 268, 283, 290–92, 293–94, 296, 297, 321

Hellman, Lillian, 259

Hemingway, Ernest, 6, 7, 19, 34, 84, 105–6, 108, 113, 122, 143, 161, 163, 221, 239, 275, 277, 289, 300, 322, 328; Death in the Afternoon , 6, 300; In Our Time , 105–6; The Sun Also Rises , 161

Hemley, Cecil, 284

Hemlock Society, 340

Hennacy, Ammon, 73–75, 77, 82–84

Hentoff, Margot, 302, 338

Hentoff, Nat, 107, 111, 158–59, 166, 288, 301, 338, 340; and jazz, 302–3, 306, 307, 310; The Jazz Life , 310

Hepburn, Audrey, 16

Herbst, Josephine, 239

Hickory House, 306

Hills, Rust, 283, 291

hippies, 176, 181, 270

Hirsch, Abbey, 306

Hirshberger, Ruth, 126

Hiss, Alger, 61, 291–92, 293

Hoffa, Jimmy, 62

Hoffman, Paul, 252

Holder, Geoffrey, 109, 114

Holiday, Billie, 96, 313, 314–17; death of, 316–17; Lady Sings the Blues , 96, 317

Hollywood, 20

Holm, Celeste, 16

Holmes, John Clellon, 129, 162–63, 194; “This Is the Beat Generation,” 162–63

Homestead restaurant, 60

homosexuals, 140, 141, 149–50, 156, 228, 230, 248, 313; and psychiatry, 223–24

Hoover, J. Edgar, 330

Horn, Judge W. J. Clayton, 179

Horney, Karen, 144

hospitality houses, 76, 82, 131, 168

Houghton Mifflin, 326, 336

House Un-American Activities Committee, 251, 270

Howe, Irving, 158, 220, 233

Howells, William Dean, 20

Hudson, Priscilla, 322

Huizinga, Johan, 287

Hungarian revolution, 264

I Am a Camera (play), 16

Idlewild Airport, 22–23

immigration, 91

Indianapolis: Robin Hood controversy, 252–55

Indianapolis Star , 48, 49, 132, 252–55

Industrial Design , 53

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 74, 76

Inge, William, 277

Ingram-Merrill Foundation, 320

International Information Administration, 248, 249–50

Irish rebellion, 127, 131, 132

Italian Americans, 141, 329

J. J. Johnson Quartet, 164

Jacobson, Dan, 178

James, Henry, 138, 204, 302

James, Joni, 298

“James at 15” (TV), 44

Japanese influence, 124, 125

jazz, 6, 135, 219, 298–318, 329, 334; and racial relations, 111, 301; reading to, 167–68

Jenner, William, 251

Jester , 40

Jews: at Columbia, 45–47; ethnicity and sexuality, 197–98

Jim Atkins’s hash house, 124, 161

Jimmy Ryan’s, 298

Johnny Romero’s bar, 160, 311

Johnson, Bunk, 302

Johnson, J. J., 5, 169, 300, 314

Johnson, Joyce Glassman, 31, 169–70, 184, 192; Come and Join the Dance , 169; Minor Characters , 169

Johnson, Lyndon B., 80

John’s restaurant, 134

Jones, Elvin, 312

Jones, Hettie Cohen, 238, 312, 318; How I Became Hettie Jones , 238, 318

Jones, James, 276; From Here to Eternity , 276, 282

Jones, LeRoi, see Baraka, Amiri

Jones, Philly Joe, 298

journalism, 51, 146; Columbia as training ground for, 36–40; New Journalism, 132–33, 288–89, 296–97; status of medium, 287–97. See also specific magazines and newspapers

Joyce, James, 122, 165; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , 7; Ulysses , 122

Joy of Sex, The (Comfort), 333

Jules and Jim (film), 276

Julius’s bar, 120, 129

Jump , 114, 311

Jung, Carl, 250

Kalb, Bernard, 285

Kama Sutra , 242

Kaplan, Justin: Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain , 337

Kaplan, Raymond, 250

Katz, Dick, 301

Katz, Leslie, 14, 20, 126, 154, 156, 285, 301

Keats, John, 29–30

Kempton, Murray, 3–4, 74, 96, 105, 106, 133, 188, 215, 259–62, 264, 266, 270, 282, 339; friendship with Buckley, 261–62; influence on DW, 60–64; and jazz, 301–3; Part of Our Time , 61–62, 260; stature as reporter, 287–88, 289

Kennedy, Jackie, 265

Kennedy, John F., 1, 2, 246, 250, 264, 265–66, 331

Kennedy, Robert, 265, 291

Kenton, Stan, 4, 20

Kerouac, Jack, 7, 9, 25, 134, 138, 139, 148, 160–76, 178, 179, 181, 183–85, 186, 188, 189–94, 223, 303; death of, 175–76; Desolation Angels , 174–75; Dr. Sax , 194; DW meets, 172–74; DW writes about, 134, 170–71, 172, 173, 175; Lowell commemorative to, 186; On the Road , 9, 41, 161–67, 169, 171, 175, 176, 181, 184, 185, 194, 199, 308; reads at Village Vanguard, 5, 164, 167–70, 171, 172, 175, 179; The Town and the City , 160, 162, 165, 190

Kesterton, M. M. (“Crow”), 48–49

Kettle of Fish, 129, 162, 163, 168

Kierkegaard, S., 30

Kilgore, Barney, 49–50, 56, 60

King, Billie Jean, 291

King, Reverend Martin Luther, Jr., 112, 113–14, 318

King and I, The (play), 16

Kingston Trio, 313

Kinsey, A. C, 29, 204; Sexual Behavior in the Human Male , 204–5, 208

Kirstein, George, 66–67, 71, 170

Kirstein, Jane, 71

Kirstein, Lincoln, 66

Klein, Norma, 31

Kline, Franz, 111, 130, 219, 307, 308, 309

Klink, Walter, 272

Klonsky, Milton, 134

Knapp, Caroline, 224–25

Koch, Edward, 142

Koch, Janice, 58

Koch, Kenneth, 58, 308

Koestler, Arthur, 215

Korean War, 31, 40, 76, 207

Kramer, Hilton, 156

Kramer, Jane, 288

Krassner, Paul, 332

Krim, Seymour, 8, 132–36, 143, 146, 152, 165, 168, 175–76, 282, 288, 320, 340–41; death of, 340–41; “The Insanity Bit,” 135, 289, 341; “Making It,” 133; meeting and friendship with DW, 133–35; “Ubiquitous Mailer vs. Monolithic Me,” 325–26; Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer , 132, 133

Kristofferson, Kris, 335

Kupcinet, Irv, 330

“Kup’s Show” (TV), 330

Kushner, Rabbi Harold, 2, 30, 46

Ladd, Alan, 276

Lahr, Bert, 16

Lamantia, Philip, 303

Lamm, Corky, 49

Lamson, Emily (pseudonym), 197–202, 211–12, 213, 214–15, 240

Landauer, Jerry, 38–39, 251

Lawrence, Gertrude, 16

Lawrence, Seymour, 336

Lazarus, Emma, 97

Leary, Timothy, 172–73, 174

Leavis, F. R., 53–54

Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 57, 126

Leigh, Vivian, 16

Le Moal restaurant, 63

Leon, Louis (“Pee-Wee”), 94–95, 99, 107

Leonard, John, 69

Lerner, Max, 144

lesbianism, 156–57

Lescoulie, Jack, 309

Leslie, Alfred, 130

Lewis, John, 113, 301

Lewis, Sinclair, 122

liberalism, 245–47, 255–60, 261–63, 266–67, 270

Life , 145–46

Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, California, 299

Lindsay, John, 334

Lingeman, Richard, 20, 57, 126, 166–67, 196, 216, 258, 282, 307, 309

literary careers: issue of success in NY, 325–26; seeking to be published, 68–70; taking jobs to survive, 51–54. See also writers

literary parties, 8, 283, 333–34

Little, Lou, 167

little magazines, 69

Loew’s Sheridan, 314–15

Logan, Josh, 295

Lorre, Peter, 291

Lost Generation, 163

Louis, Joe, 295

Louis’ restaurant, 5, 117, 130, 311

Lower East Side, 72, 177

Lyons, Roger, 250

Macauley, Robie, 62