Letters
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Bellow’s fellowship applications
budget request letters
move to Europe and
recommendation of Grace Paley
recommendation of James Baldwin
recommendation of Louise Glück
recommendation of others
recommendations of Bernard Malamud
renewal application
renewal rejection
Guinzburg, Harold
Guinzburg, Tom
Haffenden, John
Hall, Donald
Hammersmark, Sam
Hammett, Dashiell
happiness
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Harper & Row
Harper’s Bazaar
Harris, Mark
Harris, Sydney J.
Harvard University
Hasenclever, Walter
Havel, Václav
Hayek, Friedrich von
health issues
aging and
ciguatera poisoning
depression
during divorce from Sondra
eye hemorrhage
of friends
gall-bladder surgery
heart problems
hospital stays
ignoring
remarks to friends about
sexually transmitted diseases
sleeping pills
weight
wintertime
Hearst Press
heart of mankind
Hebrew
Hecht, Anthony
Held, Abe
Hellman, Lillian
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow)
Bellow’s reaction to reviews of
Bellow’s own assessment of
discussion of with Anne Sexton
discussion of with Edward Hoagland
discussion of with Leslie Fiedler
excerpt
expected sales of
film of
opera based upon
reviewing proofs of
reviews of
rewriting of
writing of
Henle, Jim
book advances
complaints about
correspondence with
parting ways with
remarks on pace of Bellow’s career
The Victim and
Herbst, Josephine
hero figures
Herskovits, Melville J.
Herzog (Bellow)
completion of
letters in
reactions to
reviews of
Bellow’s own assessment of
success of
writing of
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
Hicks, Granville
“Him With His Foot in His Mouth” (story)
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolph
Hivnor, Robert
Hoagland, Edward
Hoffman, Theodore (“Ted”)
Holbrook, David
Holiday (journal)
Holocaust
Hook, Sidney
House Un-American Activities Committee
Howe, Irving
Howland, Bette
Hudson Review monologue
Human Hope and the Death Instinct (Holbrook)
human nature
human relations
humanity
heart as origin and seat of importance in mankind
loss of
misery and
remarks to Richard Stern about
thoughts on growing older and
truth of artistic works and
Humboldt’s Gift (Bellow)
completion of
death and comedy in
detachment from
excerpt
film rights for
inscribed editions
Owen Barfield and
reviews of
Hunt, John
Hunt, William
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
Huxley, Aldous
Hyde Park
hypocrisy
I Married a Communist (Roth)
ideas and writing
“identity,”
ideology
idleness
Illinois governor
“Illinois Journey,”
illness, see health issues
imagination
immigration
immodesty
“In the Days of Mr. Roosevelt” (essay)
inconclusiveness
individuality and technology
The Information (Amis)
The Inmost Leaf (Kazin)
Instead (journal)
integration
intellectualism
intelligence
internal work as writing theme
Ironweed (Kennedy)
irony
Israel
Italy
James, Henry
Japan
“The Jefferson Lectures” excerpt
Jerusalem
Jesus
Jewish People’s Committee
Jewishness
American society and
Bellow’s
Bellow’s critique of Stanley Elkin and
in Cynthia Ozick’s Messiah of Stockholm
discussions with Leon Wieseltier
fellow writers and
the Holocaust and
as “marketable,”
as theme in Bellow’s writing
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Samuel
journalism
journalists
Joyce, James
Kamlani, Beena
Kaplan, Harold (“Kappy”)
Kaplan, Justin
Kaplan, Roger
Karlen, Arno
Kauffman, Charles
Kauffman, Jane (sister)
Kauffman, Lawrence
Kaufman, Abe
Kazin, Alfred
discussion of mutual friends
discussions about writing
discussions of family
friendship with
invitation to Tivoli house
memoir-essay on Bellow
opinion of Bellow’s early writing
remarks on Bard College to
remarks on Paris to
review of Seize the Day
Kazin, Ann (Birstein)
Kennedy, Eugene C.
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy, William
Kenner, Hugh
Kenyon Review
Kerrigan, Anthony
Kibbutz S’dot Yam
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Kiernan, Frances
Kirchner, Leon
Kleinbard, Jonathan
Klonsky, Milton
knowing one’s mind
Koch, Sigmund
Koestler, Arthur
Kołakowski, Leszek
Kollek, Teddy
Konstantinovski, Ilya
Kopit, Arthur
Korean War
Krim, Seymour
Landau, Bananas
Landau, Bernice Meyer
Landes, Arlette
Lang, Jack
Lapp, Rudy
Lasco, Louis
friendship with
illness of
Lasky, Melvin
The Last Analysis (play)
Laughlin, James
Lawrence, D. H.
laziness
Leggett, John
Lehmann, John
leisure
Leites, Nathan
Leninism
Lennon, John
Les Justes (play)
letter to Evelyn
letters
apologies for not writing
difficulty of writing
gratefulness for letters from friends
value of
Levi, Primo
Lewis, Sinclair
Lieber, Maxim
light as literary theme
Lily (opera based on Henderson the Rain King)
Linder, Erich
Lindley, Denver
literature
“literary culture,”
“literary loyalty,”
love of
merit of written vs. constructed portions of novels
polemical
teaching of
living abroad
loneliness
“Looking for Mr. Green” (story)
Lourie, Richard
love
Bellow’s thoughts on
feeling unloved by Anita
feminine beliefs about
for friends
as salvation
as theme of Herzog
women’s ability to make distinctions about
Love and Death in the American Novel (Fiedler)
“low seriousness,”
Lowell, Robert
Ludwig, Jack
Maccoby, Hyam
Macdonald, Dwight
MacKenzie, Rachel
madness as theme in Bellow’s writing
Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Ann
Malamud, Bernard
Bellow discusses Augie March with
Bellow discusses God’s Grace
Bellow on writers’ organizations
Bellow praises Dubin’s Lives
Bellow praises The Natural
Bellow’s eulogy of
Bellow’s Guggenheim recommendations for
Bellow’s opinion of A New Life
Malraux, André
Manea, Norman
Mangan, John Joseph Sherry
Manheim, Mary
Markels, Bobby
marketing of Bellow’s writing
marriage
as business alliance
divorce from Alexandra
effect on friendships
quarrels with Anita Goshkin
thoughts on
Marshall, John
Martin, Jack
Marxism
Maschler, Tom
Mastroianni, Marcello
materialism
mature and perfected form of self
Maxwell, William
McCarthy, Mary
McCloskey, Herbert
discussions of jobs and writing
friendship with
mentioned
visits with
McCloskey, Mitzie
McCormick, John
McGehee, Ed
Meade, Marion
meaning in art
Medal of Freedom
meditation
megalomania
Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son
Mencken, H. L.
Merchant Marine
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
The Messiah of Stockholm (Ozick)
metamorphosis, personal
Milano, Paolo
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Miller, Letizia Ciotti
Miller, Ruth
Mills, Margaret
mining deal in Africa
misery and human life
The Misfits (movie)
misology
Mitchell, Stephen
Mitgang, Herbert
moderation
modernism
Moe, Henry Allen
money
divorce from Anita and
early book sales
enjoyment of
Ford Foundation grant
need for
settlement payment to Susan Glassman Bellow
writing for money
Monk, Sam
Monroe, Marilyn
Montreal
Moody Lectures
moral life
Morante, Elsa
More Die of Heartbreak (Bellow)
Morris, Wright
Mosby’s Memoirs and Other Stories (Bellow)
Mostel, Zero
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
“Mr. Green” (story)
Mr. Sammler’s Planet (Bellow)
Murdoch, Iris
music
Nabokov, Nicolas
Naipaul, V. S.
Naked Lunch (Burroughs)
National Book Award
The Natural (Malamud)
natural-resource protection
naturalism in writing
Nature-intimacy
Nef, Evelyn
Nef, John U.
negative capability
Nelson, Benjamin
nephew’s suicide
Nevada
Neven du Mont, Reinhold
New Criticism
New Directions (publisher)
The New Leader article
A New Life (Malamud)
New Republic
New Writing (journal)
New York City
The New York Times
The New Yorker
News from the Republic of Letters (journal)
Nietzsche, Friedrich
nihilism
Nimier, Nadine
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobile, Philip
The Noble Savage literary magazine
Bellow discusses poetry editing with John Berryman
Bellow’s opinion of editing for
continued publication of
correspondence with Edward Hoagland about