Saul Bellow

Literature As Legacy: Writing Across The Generational Divide

Laura Paull | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: San Francisco Jewish Community Center, Saul Bellow, Philip Levine Poet Laureate, Joyce Carol Oates, American Writers, Vassar College, I.B.SInger, WIlliam Gifford, Philip Levine, Jewish American Writers, Nicole Krauss, Cynthia Ozick, Brett Singer, I.J. SInger, Harold Bloom, Peter Orner, Writing, Bookfest, San Francisco News

Literature as a creator of dialogues that deepen and explore the dynamic between different generations is a theme of a multi-day event at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center his weekend, through Tuesday, Feb. 28.

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Behind the Scenes at the Chicago Literary Awards

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Literature, Nelson Algren, Writers, Gwendolyn Brooks, Cyrus Colter, Author, Chicago Literary Awards, Books, Writer, Art Shay, Don Evans, Carl Sandburg, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sara Paretsky, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Authors, Rick Kogan, Fear No Art, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Chicago, Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, Book, Lorraine Hansberry, Harriet Monroe, Chicago News

It is wonderful to live in a city so rich of history, so rich of character, so rich of talent and art. But do we celebrate it enough?

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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Top 10 Tales Of Americans In Europe

guardian.co.uk | Esi Edugyan | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: A Portrait of a Lady, Saul Bellow, Ernest Hemingway, Americans, James Baldwin, Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues, Mark Twain, Europe, Henry James, A Moveable Feast, Americans in Europe, Books News

From Henry James to James Baldwin, the novelist chooses the best books exploring the New World's romance with 'that dazzling, elusive, imaginary place...

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Classic Celebrity Memoirs And Their Contemporary Counterparts

flavorwire.com | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Saul Bellow, Just Kids, Memoirs, Sammy Hagar, Hulk Hogan, Patti Smith, Lauren Bacall, Celebrity Memoirs, Keith Richards, Justin Bieber, Books News

"Everybody needs his memories," Saul Bellow once wrote. "They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." These days, the same can be true of fame...

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A Catalog Of Dirty Words Used In "The New Yorker"

The Awl | Elon Green @ 1:30 Pm | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: William Shawn, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Saul Bellow, The New Yorker, Junot Diaz, New Yorker Stories, Dirty Words, Ian Frazier, Harold Brodkey, Books News

Famous story, here recounted by The Daily News: Harold Brodkey used to tell the tale of how legendary New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn hand...

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Nakba Is in the Eyes of the Beholder

David Suissa | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Gideon Levy of Haaretz, Steven Chu, Geogre Kerra, Saul Bellow, Irael, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jpost, Better Place, Bernard-Henri Levy, Renault Fluence ZE, Nakba, Palestinians, Moshe Katsavr, World News

Perhaps the biggest disaster is the inability of the Arab world to see the Jewish state as anything but a cursed presence. Call me a cynic, but I don't think peace has a chance when Arabs still see the birth of Israel as a Nakba.

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lionel Trilling Lecture, Paco Benet, Martha Foley, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Alfred-Leslie, Rudy Burkhardt, Carson McCullers, The Reading Room, Chekhov, Jean-Luc Godard, J.D. Salinger, Louise Lasser, Claude-Lanzmann, Hans Hoffmann, Beat Generation, Primo Levi, Velazquez, Apropos De Nice, Barbara Probst Solomon, Kenneth Koch, Cervantes, Frank O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Moma, Peter Schjeldahl, The Anatomy of Cindy Fink, Dissent, Washington Crossing the Delaware, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Vigo, Abstract Expressionism, Tibor-De-Nagy, Jane-Freilicher, Larry Rivers, John Updike, Norman Mailer, El Pais, Robert Lowell, Marcel Proust, Prado, Felix-Nussbaum, Lionel Abel, Breathless, Columbia University, Grace Hartigan, Helen-Frankenthaler, Peninsula, Professor Yerushalami, Joseph Roth, Arts News

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

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The Real Thing: Saul Bellow Off the Record

David Galenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Experimental Innovator, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Letters, Spanish Civil War, Leslie Fiedler, Victoria Lidov, Camus, The Plague, Ezra Pound, Arts News

Bellow's recently published Letters give us a generous sampling of the literary judgments of a great writer, with private assessments of his own work -- as well as that of others.

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Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's First Induction Ceremony Honors Our Greatest Writers

Donald G. Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saul Bellow, Writers, Art Shay, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Terkel, Rick Kogan, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry, Don Evans, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, Marc Smith, Richard Wright, Slidepollajax, Chicago News

It was like any party, I guess, except this was a party for dead people. Six dead people. Six dead writers.

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Jews, Jew, Sholem Aleichem, Readers' Picks, Tevye, Judaism, Jewish, Jewish Books, Henry Roth, Saul Bellow, Herzog, Atonement, Yom, Yom Kippur, Jewish Atonement, The Chosen, Chaim Potok, Literary Prizes, Books News

Last week, to celebrate the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, we published "8 Favorite Fictional Jewish Characters In Books". Readers responded in drove...

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In Praise of Woody Allen

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zelig, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, September, Josh Brolin, Hannah and Her Sisters, Celebrity, Antonio Banderas, Saul Bellow, Anthony Hopkins, Annie Hall, Woody Allen, A Midsummer Night?S Sex Comedy, Deconstructing Harry, Anything Else, Marshall Fine Blog, Whatever Works, Take the Money and Run, Sleeper, Bananas, Melinda and Melinda, Marshall Fine Commentary, Naomi Watts, Cassandra?S Dream, Love and Death, Philip Roth, Interiors, Entertainment News

Where his films once excited a certain keenness, I often read reviews of a new Woody Allen film these days that convey the attitude of, "Oh, give it a rest already."

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A New Yorker Looks at Our Mosque Dilemma

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque, Saul Bellow, Jacob Schiff, 92nd Street Y, Michael Bloomberg, Susan Sontag, T.S. Eliot, New York News

I'm also discouraged when some of my fellow liberals behave with wanton naiveté, and indeed callousness, in brushing aside as irrelevant the pain of the families of the 3,000 people killed on 9/11.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Mosques

John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Law, Ground Zero Mosque, Saul Bellow, Jeff Merkley, Alexis De Tocqueville, World News

For me, the issue is a no-brainer. The center promotes inter-religious and intercultural dialogue, which is precisely what we need more of to prevent future attacks.

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Random House, Macmillan Rage Against Amazon's Deal With Agent Andrew Wylie

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Wylie, Philip Roth, Ereaders, Random House, Stuart Applebaum, The Jackal, John Sargent, Macmillan, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Borges, Amazon, Ebooks, Books News

NEW YORK — (AP) It's war between Random House Inc. and a top literacy agency. Random House, the country's leading trade publisher, announced Th...

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Andrew Wylie eBooks: The Literary Agent Will Publish Updike, Bellow, Roth And Others Through Amazon

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Road, Saul Bellow, Book Publishing, William Styron, Pat Conroy, Random House, Stephen Covey, Norman Mailer, Amazon, Bestsellers, Odyssey, Kindle, Jane Friedman, Philip Roth, Ebooks, Books News

NEW YORK — It's war between Random House Inc. and a top literacy agency. Random House, the country's leading trade publisher, announced Thursda...

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The Dying Art Of Letter Writing

The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saul Bellow Letters, Saul Bellow, Letters, Writing, Books, Letter Writing, Email, Archivists, Books News

Loquacious letters and epistolary exchanges between authors are falling by the wayside in the digital age -- and readers and literary estates are all ...

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What Makes Art "Christian?": Flannery O'Connor, Sufjan Stevens, and Vocation

Christopher Cocca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Saul Bellow, Tolkien, Leonard Cohen, Flannery O'Connor, Art, Sufjan Stevens, Indie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Christian, Vocation, Catholic, Religion News

The questions ought to be: does this song make us stop? Does this book make us think? Does this art feel like the suffering we know and the hope we hope for anyway?

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Vanity Fair's Coverage of the White House State Dinner: A Namedropping Guide

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepak Chopra. David Geffen, Carlos Allen, Katharine Graham, Michael Ovitz, Jane Fonda, Michaele Salahi, Mark Rothko, Leonard Bernstein, Claudette Colbert, Brooke Astor, Anne Cox Chambers, Jeffrey Immelt, Indra Nooyi, Ted Turner, Jennifer Granholm, Bob Colacello, Mort Zuckerman, Julie Harris, Peter Jennings, David McCullough, Steven Spielberg, John Kerry, Bob Casey, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Edward Albee, William Paley, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Trumka, Richard Lugar, Saul Bellow, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Robin Roberts, Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair, George Balanchine, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Washington DC, Barbra Streisand, Tennessee Williams, State Dinner, Brian Williams, Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller, David Rockefeller, Tareq Salahi, Oprah Winfrey, Charles Lindbergh, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Salahis, Judith Jamison, Sanjay Gupta, Media News

The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean Malaquais, Jane Austen, Michael Lennon, Zola, Mary Mccarthy, Picasso, Helen Mirren, J.D. Salinger, Aleksandar Hemon, Blanche DuBois, Jill Scott, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Philip Roth, Humphrey Bogart, Mma Ramotswe, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Otto Abetz, Saul Bellow, The Beat Generation, Emma Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Norman Mailer, Dreyfus Affair, Henri Matisse, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Celine, Cathleen Schine, Baudelaire, Petain, Malraux, Huysmans, Stendahl, Simenon, Gides, Dannecker, Flaubert, Laval, Books News

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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