The story, so far Nov 19, 2009
Saul Bellow and Joseph Heller were here, too, in their day. Yes, that was the novelist Margaret Atwood, every bit alive, just like the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott, the essayist and performer Garrison Keillor, the novelists Russell Banks and Toni Morrison. (Albany Times Union)
Listen to past City Arts & Lectures programs Nov 13, 2009
Saul Bellow and Michael Krasny, Nov. 2, 1984. 7. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Great (Overlooked) Books -- A Symposium Nov 5, 2009
His name appears in Saul Bellow s novel Humboldt s Gift: Late at night Humboldt read military history and war memoirs. He knew Wheeler-Bennett, Chester Wilmot, Liddell Hart, Hitler s generals. (The American Conservative)
'Brokeback Mountain' author's papers to NY library Nov 3, 2009
"What writer would not be honored to be in the company of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Thoreau, Saul Bellow, Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, Paul Auster and W. H. Auden?" Proulx said in a statement released Monday by the library. "To me there is an odd sense of balance that material dealing with some of the most rural landscapes in North America will reside in our major city.". (Honolulu Advertiser)
DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't Oct 22, 2009
That's a really good characterization of it, and of how it's different from what you're familiar with: things like a Barry Levinson movie or, like, Bernard Malamud or Saul Bellow novels ... E.C.: They're all more urban and except for Saul Bellow, more East Coast. (Salon)
Manhattan to the max Oct 20, 2009
The writer also has been quoted as saying that he was strongly influenced by Saul Bellow, Phillip K. Dick, and Charles Finney in this latest work. Lethem, 45, was raised by his father, Richard, a painter whose work is reminiscent of Marc Chagall and Egon Schiele, and his mother, Judith, who died of a brain tumor when he was 14. (Boston Globe)
Idol With Clay Feet Oct 20, 2009
In his youth, Podhoretz was best known as a literary critic, and his reflections on such writers as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth, embedded with his personal stories about them, are all reprinted here, along with a brief and unremarkable essay on Huckleberry Finn. To most Americans, if not to Podhoretz and his fans, such writers and their professional careers, personal quarrels, political opinions, and sexual peccadilloes are as remote as the struggles between the Greens and the... (The American Conservative)
Romanian-born writer wins Nobel for literature Oct 9, 2009
But the last Canadian to receive the Nobel was Saul Bellow, who won in 1976 and left for the U.S. as a boy. No South American writer has won since Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982. (AZCentral -- News)
Winners of Nobel Prize in literature since 1960 Oct 8, 2009
1976: Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American. 1975: Eugenio Montale, Italy. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
What's Happening to Sam Tanenhaus? Sep 1, 2009
He is an old-fashioned anti-communist Jewish liberal intellectual who still gets excited about Saul Bellow. He [Tanenhaus] said the critics he admires include Dwight Macdonald, Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin and Edmund Wilson. (The American Conservative)
Splash around: Great kids products for water play Aug 18, 2009
Audible, Inc. today announced the launch of a new line of audiobooks, Audible Modern Vanguard, which will bring to unabridged audio landmark fiction and nonfiction works from the 20th century by leading literary innovators such as Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, John Cheever, John Irving and Paul Auster ... com listeners will have a chance to hear Azar Nafisi discussing Saul Bellow; Russell Banks on William Kennedy; Gay Talese on Kurt Vonnegut; Larry. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Family Court Injustices to Men Jul 21, 2009
Saul Bellow, the great novelist, was married several times. When asked if he was rich, he noted the fact of his ex-wives and denied the possibility that ANYONE in his situation could be rich. (Townhall.com)
interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
Who can possibly turn away from the likes of Saul Bellow, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Dorothy Parker, Robert Gottlieb and others. The interviews are formal and thoughtful but never dry and can replace any dozen "how-to" books on writing. (Harper's Magazine)
Palin Bow-Out: Boon to Her Book Sales? Jul 4, 2009
Her editor is Adam Bellow, son of the late novelist Saul Bellow. Palin and Bellow have already huddled in person, and the book is underway. (Time.com)
Curt Smith: How one teacher made a world of difference Jun 30, 2009
Braham founded Heatherstone Press, became New England Watershed poetry editor, left Allegheny, returned, critiqued Saul Bellow and Herman Wouk, and wrote four books of poetry, reading it with an orchestra aboard paddleboats on the Ohio. In her baccalaureate address, Braham, a Wooster College graduate, told how its president liked to tell the graduates of my era that the last word that a college gave to you was your own name. (Medfield Press, MA)
Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another L... Jun 25, 2009
Saul Bellow, a former friend, based the character Humboldt Fleisher on Schwartz in his 1973 novel Humboldts s Gift. And in 1977, James Atlas published a celebrated biography of Schwartz, detailing his literary precociousness, his passionate, obsessive ambition, his meteoric rise to fame, and his tragic last years in a debilitating, manic-depressive haze. (Suite101.com)
Another View: Americans were what they ate Jun 1, 2009
One, the Federal Writers Project, operated in all 48 states and employed more than 4,500 writers, including Studs Terkel, Saul Bellow, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Claude McKay, Conrad Aiken, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Kenneth Patchen, John Cheever and Kenneth Rexroth. By February 1943, when the WPA was closed down, these writers had published 1 million words about America. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
What I Do: Dan Weiss, Dog Eared Books May 26, 2009
He was a contemporary of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, but he died at 36 of an aneurysm. It reads like a Wes Anderson movie but without the affectations because it was actually written in the '50s. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Populist Patriotism of Gore Vidal May 25, 2009
The book is about death; almost all of its personae (Tennessee Williams, Johnny Carson, Saul Bellow, Paul Bowles, Federico Fellini) are on the other side of corporeity. Vidal also writes movingly of Howard Austen, his partner of 53 years, who died of lung cancer in 2003, when we ceased to be we and became I.. (The American Conservative)
God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut May 17, 2009
While the work of contemporaries such as Saul Bellow and Phillip Roth brims with characters and crisis cribbed, often defiantly, from their biographies, Vonnegut's only autobiographical novel, "Slaughterhouse Five," tells us more about an imaginary species of space aliens than the horrors the author endured during the firebombing of Dresden. Now comes "Love as Always, Kurt," a memoir written by Loree Rackstraw, Vonnegut's former student and lover. (Boston Globe)
LETTER: Obama's lack of trust earns low grades May 12, 2009
Saul Bellow, It All Adds Up, p. 170. In saying there is too much to think about, Bellow continues by listing 8 issues that make their rounds in our reports of current events. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
They re not all literary, but: Brian Aldiss, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett (Watt and Murphy in particular), Saul Bellow, Alfred Bester (especially Tiger, Tiger), Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, John Brunner (especially Stand On Zanzibar), Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game), Ivor Cutler (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room), Samuel Delaney, T. S. Eliot (especially The Waste Land), Gunter Grass (the early works, especially The Tin Drum), Robert Graves,... (Suite101.com)
'Harry Potter' among those missing from e-library Apr 30, 2009
No e-books are available from such living authors as Thomas Pynchon, Guenter Grass and Cynthia Ozick, or from the late Studs Terkel, Roberto Bolano and Saul Bellow. Only a handful, or less, have come out from Paul Bowles, Hunter S. Thompson and James Baldwin. (USA Today -- Tech)
Famous dead people Mar 25, 2009
Dead writer William S. Burroughs pretty much just follows other dead writers, such as Saul Bellow, Frank O Hara and Hunter S. Thompson. . (The Palm Beach Post)
Laugh and let live Mar 18, 2009
The late novelist Saul Bellow, a man who enjoyed a good story and lived to be 89, said one of his favorites jokes was the difference between ignorance and indifference. The answer: "I don't know and I don't care.". (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
James Purdy, author of underground classics, dies Mar 15, 2009
"The extreme margins of the stable, familiar world of Saul Bellow and of most novelists, including me are at the extreme normal end of Mr. Purdy's world," Franzen said during a formal ceremony in Manhattan. "He takes up where the rest of us leave off.". (USA Today -- Life)
Cheever’s conflicts - With family’s blessing, a new look at torments of a suburban author Mar 14, 2009
Other writers of Cheever s era - Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth - wrestled with the political and social issues of the time. They paid attention to the headlines. (Missoulian, MT)
Sylvia Rothchild, novelist, reviewer, and cellist; at 86 Mar 3, 2009
Reviewing a new novel by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow in the Advocate, she curtly wrote in 1998 that "the plot of 'The Actual' is too thin to bother with." A couple of paragraphs later, though, she conceded that "the novel is nevertheless a pleasure to read. One meets Saul Bellow in his early 80s trying to make peace with his species.". Mrs. Rothchild also was still writing in her 80s, a course she had predicted in the 1995 interview with the Advocate. (Boston Globe)
Exit interview:Ken Alexander Mar 2, 2009
And he has a book on the go (slowly, slowly) a devilishly difficult work he deems historical fiction, at least for the time being, about the disappearance of Canada featuring everyone and everything from authors Saul Bellow and Mark Twain, and independent MP Chuck Cadman to the incorporation of Chicago as a city and the Rebellions of 1837-38 in Upper and Lower Canada. But there's one habit that Ken Alexander hasn't shaken from the almost six years he spent as publisher, editor and general... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Photo negative Mar 1, 2009
When I sought photos of Saul Bellow, I found several identical thumbnails of the same three author portraits from the 1970s. I did better with broader searches. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
A John Updike appreciation Feb 8, 2009
Like Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Norman Mailer, the other great white hairy-chested male writers (a bygone category in which Updike included himself), he chronicled a culture whose virility and belief in the future were on the ropes. He wrote about sex with a conflicted Protestant obsessiveness and a wariness of women that was reflective of that generation, and uneasily true. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
