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NOTES
1 Editor’s note: Originally published in Trema No. 2: Fictions Américaines Contemporaines II:
Transformations narratives et Intertextualité (Paris: Publications de l’UER des Pays Anglophones,
1977), 111-126. Transcribed by Rainer J. Hanshe.
2 Editor’s note: The second volume of Purdy’s Sleepers in Moon-Crowned Valleys trilogy is
his novel The House of the Solitary Maggot (New York: Double Day, 1974). The first paperback
edition was published over 30 years later by Carroll & Graf in 2005. The third part of the trilogy is
Mourners Below (New York: Viking Press, 1981)
3 Editor’s note: Purdy did finish writing Narrow Rooms. It was published by Arbor House in 1978.
4 Editor’s note: Albee’s adaptation of Malcolm was performed at the Shubert Theatre in New York
City. The first performance was on January 11, 1966. It featured Matthew Cowles as Malcolm,
Henderson Forsythe as Mr. Cox, Estelle Parsons as Laureen, a streetwalker, and Madame Rosita,
and numerous other actors. The play was directed by Alan Schneider, who is perhaps most wellknown
for directing Beckett. The music was composed by William Flanagan.
5 Editor’s note: Prior to Purdy’s novel, Andy Warhol shot a documentary about Swan in 1965
called Paul Swan. See Matthew Tinkcom, Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema
(North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002), 90-92, for a description of the film and Warhol’s
working method. For a recent monograph on Swan, see Janis Londraville and Richard Londraville,
The Most Beautiful Man in the World: Paul Swan, from Wilde to Warhol (Nebraska: University of
Nebraska Press, 2006). Oddly, if not surprisingly, neither Purdy nor his novel I am Elijah Thrush is
mentioned in this book on Swan.
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