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The Times' 'New York Conservative' - TheThe Times' 'New York Conservative'The Jewish WeekWhen Brooks was asked at the time by another rabbi about what being Jewish meant to him, he mentioned “Saul Bellow, Woody Allen, cultural things.” But, as he explains, at his wife's urgings, “I got pulled back in.” She became more deeply involved in ...and more »
Posted on 16 November 2011 | 4:50 am
Larry Wilson: When novelists resort toLarry Wilson: When novelists resort to Facebook smackdownsPasadena Star-NewsRight - hard to picture Saul Bellow getting in his daily 140- character tweet to millions of followers. "Come out here and give me back my name!" went all the way up to Zuck himself, at least at first - of users using their real names to identify ...and more »
Posted on 16 November 2011 | 4:04 am
The Grapes of Roth - Tablet MagazineThe Grapes of RothTablet MagazineBut he is never in possession of the loom—so elegantly mastered by his contemporary, Saul Bellow—that lets a writer process his or her bales of bile into beautiful fabrics that keep us warm. None of this would have been too bad had Roth, befitting of ...
Posted on 15 November 2011 | 12:05 pm
Amateur street photography: a beginner'sThe Guardian (blog)Amateur street photography: a beginner's guideThe Guardian (blog)The novelist Saul Bellow once described his habit of recharging his creative energies by plunging into the New York subway and immersing himself in the crowd. He called it "taking a humanity bath". That's what we do when we take street photographs: we ...and more »
Posted on 15 November 2011 | 9:10 am
FICTION REVIEW: "Love and Shame andFICTION REVIEW: "Love and Shame and Love"Minneapolis Star TribuneSound familiar? There's a bit of Augie March in Alexander, and much like Saul Bellow's classic Chicago novel, "Love and Shame and Love" strives to capture the boyish urge to go at things freestyle. Comparisons with Bellow go only so far, though. ...'Love and Shame and Love' by Peter OrnerChicago Tribuneall 2 news articles »
Posted on 13 November 2011 | 10:34 am
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Gimpel’s not so simple, actor saysActor Howard Rypp always believed his stage adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yiddish tale “Gimpel the Fool” had universal appeal. How universal? Two years ago he played it before a sold-out crowd in Cairo, Egypt.
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 9:47 pm
No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments,Bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen came out heavily against ebooks, but, really, who cares?
Posted on 31 January 2012 | 5:28 pm
E-books damage society says FranzenJonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections, has said that e-books could be damaging to society.
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 11:08 am
Dave Astor: A Factual History ofSeeking some compelling mid-winter reading? Try perusing the list of books that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The winners, as you'll see in the links below, range from classic novels to now-obscure books.
Posted on 26 January 2012 | 6:18 pm
After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth ofSoon after the Russian Revolution, Isaiah Berlin and his parents left Riga and came to Britain. They were the lucky ones.
Posted on 26 January 2012 | 11:14 am




Saul Bellow
A Tale of Two Sauls: Bellow andSaul Alinsky and Saul Bellow are not the same. I know it's easy to confuse two Jewish guys with the same first name who both went to the University of Chicago and went on to write books. But we just wanted to make it totally ...
Posted on 30 January 2012 | 2:26 pm
books that matter: The Bellarosa ConnectionThe Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow. This is Bellow's 2nd paperback-only novella. The Bellarosa Connection (1989) derives it's name from Harry Fonstein, a Galician Jew living in Italy under Mussolini, who is rescued ...
Posted on 28 January 2012 | 6:21 pm
Book to the Future · 1956 – seize the daySaul Bellow's Seize the Day is a moving novel…but it failed to move me, and I'm left trying to work out why. There's so much that I admired about Bellow's writing. The elements that make up this novel are so close to perfect, ...
Posted on 24 January 2012 | 8:14 pm
Saul Bellow Warns Against "DeepSaul Bellow, writing in ye old New York Times, takes overzealous literary students to task for failing to see the forests for the trees, and he does so in fine form. "Deep reading has gone very far," Bellow writes. "It has becomes ...
Posted on 17 January 2012 | 8:57 pm
books that matter: A Theft by SaulThis novella, divided into 6 unnumbered chapters, was intended for a magazine, but none would publish it, so Bellow published it in 1989 as a paperback only. The plot is simple. Clara Velde is a successful fashion writer in ...
Posted on 14 January 2012 | 8:15 pm







