Volume 40, Number 8 · April 22, 1993
The Death of a Yale Man
By John Gregory Dunne
Remembering Denny
by Calvin Trillin
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 209 pp., $19.00
It should be said at the outset that Calvin Trillin and I have been friends for over thirty years. It should further be said that I once dedicated a book to him and his wife, Alice, and that he, somewhat more problematically, dedicated a book to me. Or to be more precise, included in his novel Floater—loosely based on our days together at Time—what he called a 'Claimer' (as opposed to 'Disclaimer'): 'The character of Andy Wolferman is based on John Gregory Dunne, though it tends to flatter.' When I asked Mr. Trillin how his portrait of the pathological gossip Wolferman might in any way have been flattering, he said, 'I made you Jewish.'
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