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In this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow," Philip Roth describes his friendship with and admiration for Bellow, and he Bellow was a "powerhouse" of an author. "There are very few tools that he couldn't pick up and use," Roth said in the final ...

Who is Buffy Sainte-Marie? Every young person, becoming aware of the hardships of life, wept over Buffy Sainte-Marie’s song "Universal Soldier." People in the feverish situation of falling out of love with people they cared for, found refuge in her song "Until It's Time for ...

In our ever-expanding media universe, wonderfully entertaining things are naturally bound to get lost or overlooked. With so many choices available, it isn't obvious that there may be something incredibly relevant that happens to have been made 80 or 90 years ago. In fairness, a ...

Salman Rushdie talks about some of his favorite Saul Bellow books in this outtake from "The Adventures of Saul Bellow." Rushdie says, "These are some of the great masterpieces of American literature."

Sariel Friedman explores the evolving construction of the American dream, including its depictions in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gish Gen, Saul Bellow and others. Written as part of the American Masters Digital Archive project, this essay draws on original interviews conducted for "Novel ...

[Editor's Note - November 3, 2023: Recent investigative reports have sought to raise questions about Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Indigenous heritage. Sainte-Marie has stated that she is uncertain of her biological heritage and affirms her formal adoption into and identification with the Cree nation.] The Red Power ...

Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author, Saul Bellow, transformed modern literature with his prose. Grappling with the chaos of modern society and American identity, Bellow's work often commented on what it means to be alive. Here are 10 quotes to help you "seize the day." ...

Saul Bellow's novel "The Dean's December," released in 1982, details the blowback a writer faces after publishing an exposé on Chicago's corruption. "You can't live in Chicago without being sharply aware of the presence of this underclass," said Bellow of writing about the city in ...

Ernest Hemingway was the master of the simple, declarative sentence during his time. By contrast, when Saul Bellow came along, he created descriptive sentences full of verbal energy. "This was a great shift in the American notion of what a great prose style was," said ...

When Dick Cavett first started doing standup, he quickly learned that performing comedy yourself and writing comedy for another person are two very different ventures. In this outtake from "Groucho & Cavett," Cavett reflects on the trial and error in his early days of standup ...