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Ada (Nabokov)
Agee, James
Aimeé, Anouk
“Akhnilo” (Salter)
Aldrin, Buzz
Algonquin
All That Is (Salter)
aesthetic
artistic comparison
character development
comparison to other works
epigraph
excerpt interpretation
imagery
inception
media
personal attributes
plot
publication
reception
religious themes
sexism
title
“Virginia”
writing process. See also Bowman, Phillip
Allfree, Claire
Altemus, Ann
Alvarez, A.
“Am Strande von Tanger” (Salter)
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
“American Express” (Salter)
plot
publication
television production
Salter on
story development
writing process
“American Playhouse”
American Short Story Masterpieces
Anderson, Sherwood
Angell, Roger
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Appointment, The
“Arlington” (Salter)
Arm of Flesh, The (Salter)
military influence
plot
printing
publication
revision
writing process
Armory Show
Army Air Corps
Arthur, George K.
As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)
“As They Were: American Masters through the Lens of James Salter”
Aspen, Colorado: essay on
history
initial visit
residence
tourism
writing in
Aspen Institute
Atlantic
Atlantic Fiction for Kindle
Autun, France
Babel, Isaac
commentary
works
writing process
Baker, Fred
Bangkok (Salter)
“Bangkok” (Salter)
Banville, John
Barefoot in the Park
Barnes, Julian
Barnett, Edward
Beat Notre Dame
Beattie, Ann
Beattie, Bob
Beautiful Indifference, The (Hall)
Beck, Rosemarie
Becker, Bruce
Bedford, Sybille
Begley, Adam
Beinecke Library
Bellow, Saul
commentary
comparison
friendship
influence
writing process
Benton, Jessica
Benton, William
Berryman, John
Best American Essays
Best American Short Stories
Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (Liebling)
Bilmes, Alex
Black Spring
Blackwood, Caroline (Lady)
Blixen, Bror
Bloom, Harold
Bluhdorn
Bodley Head
Bonnard, Pierre
Bonnet, Honoré
Book of Common Prayer, The
Book Review. See New York Times Book Review
Booker Prize
Books and Co.
Bowman, David
Bowman, Phillip: aesthetic
character development
character summary
chronology
comparison to Salter
imagery
inspiration for
narrative
reader perception
visual depiction
Boys
Brando, Marlon
Breakfast Room, The (Bonnard)
Bridgehampton, Long Island: changes
residence
writing in
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The (Diaz)
Brinkman, Lefty
Brooks, John
Brophy, Brigid
Brown, James Oliver
Broyard, Anatole
Bukowski, Charles
Burke, Robert E.
Burning the Days (Salter)
correspondence
excerpt
family
“Icarus”
influences
inspiration
journalism
military experience
narrative
nostalgia
publication
purpose
rejection of works
review
revision
writing process
Burns, John Horne
Burroughs, William S.
Bury the Dead (Shaw)
Byron, Lord
Camus, Albert
Canadian Broadcasting Company
Cannes Film Festival
Cantos, The (Pound)
Capote, Truman
“Captain’s Wife, The” (Salter)
Carnegie Hall
Carson, Anne
Carver, Raymond
Cassada (Salter)
Cassius Le Grand
Castle to Castle (Céline)
Catch-22 (Heller)
Cavafy, C. P.
CBC. See Canadian Broadcasting Company
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Chamonix, France
“Charisma” (Salter)
Charlotte’s Web (White)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chaumont, France
Cheever, John
Chekhov, Anton
Choses vues (Hugo)
Chung, Sonya
Churchill, Winston
CINE
“Cinema, The” (Salter)
Circus
Cirillo, Dexter
Clarín
Clark, Eleanor
Cochran, Stacy
Cocteau, Jean
Cohen, Olivier
Colet, Louise
Colette
Collected Stories (Salter)
Collier, John
Collier’s
“Comet” (Salter)
favorite stories
plot structure
publication
theme
Condé Nast
Connolly, Cyril
Conroy, Frank
Cooper, Gary
Cossacks
Counterpoint
Cozzens, James Gould
d’Annunzio, Gabriele
“Dante Street” (Babel)
de Beauvoir, Simone
de Kooning, Willem
de Maupassant, Guy
de Montherlant, Henry
de Sade, Marquis
de Segonzac, André
Dee, Jonathan
DeLillo, Don
“Destruction of the Goetheanum, The” (Salter)
DeWeese, Dan
Diaz, Junot
Dickens, Charles
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dinesen, Isak
influence
works
Dirda, Michael
“Dirt” (Salter)
Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize
Dos Passos, John
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Doubleday
Dowie, William
Downhill Racer: film
film success
plot
production
research
screenplay writing
Draper, Don
Dreiser, Theodore
Ducrot Pepys
Dun, Tan
Duras, Marguerite
“Dusk” (Salter)
Dusk: And Other Stories (Salter)
award
cadence
characters
favorite stories
inspiration
publication
reception
technique
Earthly Paradise (Colette)
Ediciones Salamandra
Éditions des Deux Terres
Eggers, Dave
Eiger
Ekström, Patrik
Eldredge, Kay
collaboration
influence on writing
marriage
personal work
Ellis, Toni
“Embassy of Cambodia, The” (Smith)
English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book Award
Ephron, Nora
Epictetus
Esquire
autobiographical work
general publication
initial praise
interview
memoir publication
Essays on the Literature of Mountaineering
Excelsior Hotel
“Eyes of the Stars” (Salter)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature
Faulkner, William
film writing
influence
on short stories
works
writing process
Fellini, Federico
“Fields at Dusk, The” (Salter)
Firestone, Ross
First World War
Fisher, M. F. K.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
Fonda, Jane
Ford, Ford Madox
Ford, Richard: friendship
introduction to Light Years
praise
“Foreign Shores” (Salter)
Fox, Joe
friendship
legacy of Salter’s work
publication of work
Franden, Robert
Fraser, Antonia
Friedan, Betty
From Here to Eternity (Jones)
Frost, Tom
Fuchs, Daniel
Gaghan, Steve
Gallery, The (Burns)
Garnier, Philippe
Gaudí, Antoni
Genet, Jean
Georgetown University
Georgy Girl
Gide, André
Gill, Brendan
Ginna, Robert Emmett, Jr.
Giroux, Robert
“Give” (Salter)
Glenville, Peter
Godard, Jean-Luc
Godfather, The
Gods of Tin (Salter)
Gogol, Nikolai
Golden West: Hollywood Stories, The (Fuchs)
Goldman, William
Good Soldier, The (Ford)
Goodbye, Bear
Goodbye, Louis Heyward, and All That
Gotham Book Mart
Graham, Jorie
Grand Street
Grasse, France
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Greben, Rachel
Greene, Graham
Grissom, Virgil “Gus”
Grove Press Films
Guard of Honor (Cozzens)
“Guy de Maupassant” (Babel)
Guyotat, Pierre
Hadada Award (Paris Review)
Hall, Sarah
Hallelujah the Hills
Harlin, John
Harper & Brothers (Harper Brothers)
Harper & Row
Harper’s
Harper’s Bazaar
Harry Ransom Center
Harvard Book Store
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hax, Andrés
Hazzard, Shirley
Hearn, Lafcadio
Heller, Joseph
Hemingway, Ernest
comparison
Salter on
work
writing process
Hemming, Gary
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow)
Heroes and Orators (Phelps)
Herr, Michael
Heyward, Louis
Hillary, Richard
Hills, Rust
Hilton, Paris
Hirsch, Edward
Hitchens, Christopher
Hollins, Vicky
Holmes, Michael
Horace Mann School
Horowitz, George
Horowitz, James Arnold. See also Salter, James
Horowitz, Mildred
Hugo, Victor
Hunters, The (Salter)
autobiographical work
comparison to other works
debut
film
location
military experience
plot
printing
publication
purpose
rejection
revision
theme
In the French Style
Institute Alliance Française
Interview (magazine)
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Irving, John
James Salter (Dowie)
James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (documentary)
James Salter Archive
Jenks, Tom
Jerome Hotel
John Steinbeck Award
Johnson, Jeanine
Jones, James
influence
screenplay
work
Jouhandeau, Marcel
Kafka, Franz
Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
Kaputt
Keats, John
Kerouac, John (Jack)
commentary
education
influence
Kidd, Billy
“Killers, The” (Hemingway)
Killy, Jean-Claude
Kipling, Rudyard
Klein, William
Knopf
Knowles, John
Koestler, Arthur
Koran
Korean War: journal
as part of work
Salter experience
Krementz, Jill
Kubrick, Stanley
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
Laporte, Arnaud
Larkin, Philip
“Last Night” (Salter)
Last Night: Stories (Salter)
dedication
favorite stories
form
theme
Lawrence, D. H.
Léautaud, Paul
Leduc, Violette
Lee, Jonathan
Lelouch, Claude
Les Enfants du Paradis
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos)
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, Norman
L’Homme des Hautes Solitudes (Salter). See also Solo Faces
Liebling, A. J.
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days (Salter and Eldredge): concept
publication
writing process
Light Years (Salter)
award
characters
composition of book
excerpt interpretation
framework
inspiration
plot
publication
reception
rejection
reviews
Salter on
style
theme
Viri
Listener
Littauer, Kenneth
Little, Brown
“Little Bouilloux Girl, The” (Colette)
Lolita (Nabokov)
Lorca, Federico García
Lord, Sheridan
Loren, Sophia
Lorentz, Pare
“Lost Sons” (Salter)
Lover, The
Lowell, Ivana
Lowell, Robert
Lucas, George
Lumet, Sidney
Mad Men
Mahler, Gustav
Mailer, Norman
Malaparte, Curzio
Matisse, Henri
Matthiessen, Peter
Maxwell, William
McCarthy, Mary
McDormand, Frances
Meehan, Sandy Gotham
Mekas, Adolfas
Memorable Days (Salter and Phelps)
correspondence
foreword
included works
publication
writing process
Menand, Louis
Mercantile Library-Clifton Fadiman Medal
Mewshaw, Sean
Michener, James
Miller, Henry
controversial work
influence
literary quality
Millions, The
Mishima, Yukio
M.I.T.
Mitchum, Robert
Modern Library
Montreux Palace Hotel
Moore, Lorrie
Morris, Willie
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway)
Movie People: At Work in the Business of Film (Baker and Firestone)
Munch, Edvard
Munro, Alice
Museum of Modern Art
“My First Goose” (Babel)
“My Heart Laid Bare”
My Mother’s House (Colette)
My Son, My Son
Nabokov, Véra
Nabokov, Vladimir: influence
interview
works
“Naked and the Conflicted, The”
Naples ’44 (Lewis)
Napoleon
Narrative Magazine
National Geographic
“Nedra and Viri” (Salter)
NET-TV
New Directions
New York Film Festival
New York Mercantile Library
New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit
New York Times
profile
publication of other work
publication of Salter’s work
review
New York Times Book Review
New York Times Sunday Book Review
New Yorker
profile
publication of other work
publication of Salter’s work
review
Nexus (Miller)
“Night School” (Carver)
No Exit (Sartre)
Normandie
North Point Press
Notre Dame de Paris (cathedral)
O. Henry Prize Stories
Oates, Joyce Carol
Obermeyer, Klaus
Object Lessons (Stein and Stein)
O’Brien, Edna
O’Connor, Flannery
Of Time and the River (Wolfe)
Offutt, Chris
On the Road (Kerouac)
Ondaatje, Michael
Open Road Media
Out of Africa (Dinesen)
Paepcke, Walter
Pale Fire (Nabokov)
Paley, Grace
“Palm Court” (Salter)
Paramount
Paris Match
Paris Review
award
interviews
publication
Paris Review Editions
Paris Review Revel
“Patriotism” (Mishima)
Paumgarten, Nick
Pavese, Cesare
PBS
Pearce, Richard
PEN Center USA Award for Creative Nonfiction
PEN/Faulkner Award
PEN/Lifetime Achievement Award
PEN/Malamud Award
Penguin Modern Classics
People
Perkins, Maxwell
Phelps, Robert: correspondence
introduction
Photography Magazine
Pier 94 Manhattan
Pinter, Harold
“Platinum” (Salter)
Plexus (Miller)
Plimpton, George
publication of Salter work
Ploesti
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetry (magazine)
Pointer (West Point)
Polanski, Roman
Pollock, Jackson
Pope, Dan
Porter, Robie
Pound, Ezra
Powell, Anthony
Powell, Dick
Prévert, Jacques
Price, Reynolds
Propeller
Rabalais, Kevin
Rabinovitch, Sandra
Radin, Sam
Rampling, Charlotte
Random House
Ransom Center. See Harry Ransom Center
Rea Award
Redford, Robert: collaboration with Salter
friendship
initial film involvement
role in Downhill Racer
Reed, Rex
Renoir, Auguste
Renoir, Jean: influence
quotation
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rising Sun, The (Toland)
Ritchie, Michael
River, The
Robbins, Royal
Robison, Mary
Rockwell, Norman
Roiphe, Katie
Rorem, Ned
Roth, Hans Ingvar
Roth, Phillip
Rotten to the Core
Sabich, Spider
Sag Harbor
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Salinger, J. D.
Salon
Salter, Allan Conrad
Salter, Claude Cray
Salter, James Owen
Salter, Kay. See Eldredge, Kay
Salter, Nina Tobe
Salter, Theo Shaw
Sand, George
Sargent, John Singer
Sayles, John
Sebald, W. G.
Second World War. See also World War II
Semple, Lorenzo
Sequestro di Persona
“Sex, Seriously: James Salter Trumps the Great Male Novelists”
Sexus (Miller)
Shaw, Irwin: collaboration
friendship
influence
Salter adaptation
Salter on
works
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shoemaker, Jack
Simon, John
“Simple Heart, A” (Flaubert)
Singer, Armand
“Single Daring Act, A” (Salter)
Slate, Lane
Smith, Dinitia
Smith, Jean Kennedy
Smith, Zadie
Soderbergh, Steven
Sohn, Tim
Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O’Brien (Vernon)
Solo Faces (Salter)
Cabot
characters
inception
plot
publication
reception
research
revision
screenplay into novel
theme
Vernon Rand
Sonnenberg, Ben
Sontag, Susan
Speak, Memory (Nabokov)
Spillane, Mickey
Sport and a Pastime, A (Salter)
Anne-Marie
comparison to other works
Dean
eroticism
inception
inspiration
narrative
publication
reception
rejection
reviews
Salter on
theme
Star Wars
Steadman, Ralph
Steck, Ueli
Steele, Gordon
Steiger, Rod
Steinbeck, John
Stendhal
Still Such (Salter)
Strachan, Pat
Strait Is the Gate (Gide)
Straus, Roger
Styron, William
“Such Fun” (Salter)
Summit, New Jersey
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway)
Susann, Jacqueline
Sutherland, Donald
Suyin, Han
Swados, Harvey
Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Peter
Team Team Team
Telegraph
Tennyson, Alfred
“Then We Were Three” (Shaw)
There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter
Thomas, Evan
Thompson, Hunter S.
collaboration
directing
film development
reception
Salter on
Threshold
Time
Tin House
Toland, John
Tolstoy, Leo
Top Gun
Towers, Robert
Town and the City, The (Kerouac)
Traffic
Trollope, Anthony
Tropic of Cancer (Miller)
Truffaut, François
Turgenev, Ivan
Twain, Mark
Twayne Publishers
“Twenty Minutes” (Salter)
Under Milk Wood (Thomas)
United Artists
University of Houston
University of Notre Dame
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
Updike, John
comparison
work
writing process
Vanity Fair
Vassar College
Venice Film Festival
Vernon, Alex
“Via Negativa” (Salter)
Victim, The (Bellow)
Vidal, Gore
Vogue
Wachtel, Eleanor
Wagner, Robert
Wahlström and Widstrand
Warren, Robert Penn
Washington Post Book World
Waterston, Sam
Waugh, Evelyn
Weaver, Richard
Web and the Rock, The (Wolfe)
Weidenfeld, George
Weiner, Matthew
Welty, Eudora
Wescott, Glenway
Wheeler, Frank
White, E. B.
White, Ed
Whitman, Walt
“Wife of Nashville, A” (Taylor)
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thornton
Wilkinson, Alec
Williams, Joy
Williams, Tennessee
Williams College
Winsten, Archer
“Winter of the Lion” (Salter)
Wolcott, James
Wolfe, Thomas: early education
influence
publisher
writing culture
Wolff, Tobias
Wood, James
Wood, Natalie
Woolf, Virginia
Wooster, Richard
World War II. See also Second World War
“Worn Path, A” (Welty)
“Writers & Company,”
Wyler, William
Yale University
Yates, Richard
Yosemite
“You Must” (Salter)
Young Lions, The (Shaw)
Ziolkowski, Thad
Zoetrope
Zuckerman, Kathy