“My Grand Party”
1. Author interview with JA, September 22, 2012, Hudson, NY. This sublet at 21 Jones Street was the third apartment JA had lived in already during the summer of 1949. He shared the tiny place with Richard Shaw, a coworker from the Brooklyn Library, and they were not friendly. “It was in the basement, below street level. We had to walk up steps to get out. People walking past could look down and in.”
2. Letter from JA to KK, September 13, 1949, JAPC.
3. Author interview with JA, September 21, 2014, New York.
4. Letter from JA to Robert Hunter, June 30, 1949, RHPC.
5. Letter from FO to Edward Gorey. Frank O’Hara wrote to Ted Gorey from Grafton, MA, that “I have a beastly cold but plan to visit John Ashbery in New York this weekend if I live” (September 1, 1949). Edward Gorey Papers, Harry Ransom Center.
6. Author interview with JA, April 6, 2013, Hudson, NY.
7. Author interview with Pat Hoey Cooper, April 24, 2013, New York.
8. Author interview with JA, September 13, 2014, Hudson, NY.
9. Author interview with Albert Kresch, May 13, 2013, Brooklyn, NY.
10. Author interview with JF, May 21, 2013, New York.
11. Letter from JA to KK, September 13, 1949, JAPC.
12. Robert Motherwell gave his Provincetown lecture naming a “School of New York” on August 11, 1949.
13. Author interview with JA, November 25, 2012, Hudson, NY.