The New Yorkerのインスタグラム(newyorkermag) - 6月7日 10時00分

James Grissom’s 2015 memoir, “Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog,” intertwines intimate interviews with the playwright and the 20th-century luminaries—including Katherine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, and Bette Davis—who influenced him. The book was blurbed by the publishing heavyweight Michael Korda and the playwright John Guare. But some readers noted a conspicuous absence of sources or notes. Given that most of the people whom Grissom had quoted were dead, his encounters were difficult to verify. “Everyone, probably, within the tight-knit community recognizes the book as—oh, I don’t want to say ‘fluff,’ but as undocumented, and therefore perhaps unreliable,” John S. Bak, a specialist in Williams’s last 20 years, said. Grissom said that believing “Follies of God” comes down to a question of his word. “For a long time, the charge was ‘Why are there no source notes?’ Well, because I’m the source,” Grissom said. “It’s a memoir. It’s not a biography.” At the link in our bio, Helen Shaw explores Grissom’s story. Illustration by Valentin Tkach (@valentin_tkach_illustration).

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