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by Saul Bellow


  correspondence with Louis Gallo about

  demise of

  first issue of

  praised by Edmund Wilson

  second issue of

  slow publication schedule of

  normalcy

  Northwestern University

  Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee

  Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)

  Notre Dame Cathedral

  novels

  The Novels of Saul Bellow (Opdahl)

  New York University

  Oates, Joyce Carol

  Oaxaca

  objectivity

  Obolensky, Prince Dimitri Dimitrievich

  O’Brien, Edna

  “The Old System” (story)

  On Native Grounds (Kazin)

  Ontario Review

  Opdahl, Keith

  Oppenheimer, Yaddi

  oppression

  oral miserliness

  Orwell, George

  Orwell, Sonia Brownell

  overconfidence of writers

  Ozick, Cynthia

  pacifism

  Paley, Grace

  Paonescu, Ana

  Paris

  Parker, Dorothy

  Partington, Lucy

  Partisan Review (PR)

  announcement of “Dr.Pep” in

  early publications in

  Jean Stafford’s writing in

  opinions of

  publication of Augie March chapter in

  travel-letter in

  Passin, Cora

  Passin, Herb

  Anita Goshkin and

  Bellow’s friendship with

  conversations with

  loss of contact with

  relationships with women

  son Thomas

  Patrimony (Roth)

  Peltz, David

  annoyance at Bellow

  friendship with

  mentioned

  PEN International Congress

  People

  “People to People” Committee

  Perot, Ross

  Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers’ College

  pets

  Phillips, William

  Piccolo Teatro (Milan)

  Pipes, Richard

  Piscator, Erwin

  plane travel

  plays

  completion of The Last Analysis

  Lillian Hellman’s opinion of The Last Analysis

  production of The Last Analysis

  reviews of

  The Upper Depths

  writing of

  PM (journal)

  Podhoretz, Norman,

  poetry

  Bellow’s praise of Bobby Markels

  Bellow’s “Spring Ode” poem

  John Berryman’s

  Robert Penn Warren’s

  Poland

  polemical literature

  politics

  being Jewish and

  Bellow on Stalinism

  Bellow’s nomination of Teddy Kollek for Nobel Peace Prize

  Committee for the Free World and

  discussions with David Bazelon about

  discussions with Leon Wieseltier about

  Israel and

  opinion of office of President

  praise for Stanley Crouch’s writing

  racial politics in Chicago

  writers’ responsibilities to political life

  Yetta Barshevsky and

  politics (journal)

  Pollitt, Katha

  Positano

  postal system

  Potok, Chaim

  Pound, Ezra

  Power in America: The Politics of the New Class (Bazelon)

  Powers, J. F.

  Pozen, Walter

  PR, see Partisan Review

  “prepared” attitudes

  Prince of Darkness and Other Stories (Powers)

  principles

  Pritchett, V.S.

  procrastination

  Progressive Book Club

  promotion of Bellow’s writing

  prophets

  Proust, Marcel

  provincialism

  Pryce-Jones, David

  psychoanalysis

  psychology

  Puerto Rico

  Pulitzer Prize

  “The Pulley” (story)

  Pyramid Lake, Nevada

  Queens College

  Rahv, Philip

  Ramanujan, A. K.

  Ransom, John Crowe

  Ravelstein (Bellow)

  Ray, Gordon

  readers

  Reagan, Ronald

  reality

  “reality instructors,”

  Reedy, George

  Reich, Wilhelm

  relationships with women

  Arlette Landes

  escape from feeling troubled by ladies

  Frances Gendlin

  letter to Evelyn

  Pearl

  in Poland

  in Tel Aviv

  religion

  Remnick, David

  reviews, see criticism; critics

  revolution

  Richardson, Jack

  Rockefeller Grant application

  Roethke, Theodore

  Romania

  Rome

  Roosevelt, Karyl

  Roscoe (Kennedy)

  Rosenberg, Harold

  Rosenfeld, Isaac

  Bellow teaching at NYU and

  Bellow’s view of

  death of

  doctoral studies of

  financial worries of

  friendship with Bellow and Tarcov

  Guggenheim fellowship of

  as irritant

  James Atlas article on

  journals of

  Mark Shechner’s lecture on

  poetry of

  psychotherapy and

  radio writing for Jewish People’s Committee

  return to Chicago after doctoral studies

  slackening of correspondence with

  on volunteering for army service

  Rosenfeld, Vasiliki

  Ross, Ralph

  Roth, Philip

  discussions of writing with

  friendship with

  visits with

  Roth, William

  Rozanov, Vasily

  Ruben Whitfield (lost early novel)

  Rubenfeld, Florence

  Rushdie, Salman

  Russell & Volkening Literary Agency

  Russell, Diarmuid

  Sacks, Oliver

  sages

  Said, Edward

  Sakharov, Andrei

  Salas, Floyd

  Salter, James

  San Francisco

  San Francisco Examiner

  San Francisco State University

  Sandburg, Carl

  Sarant, George

  Sarda, Jack

  Sartre, Jean-Paul

  Sasha, see Tschacbasov, Sondra

  Saturday Review of Literature

  Saul Bellow (Miller)

  Saving the Appearances (Barfield)

  Schapiro, Meyer

  Scholem, Gershom

  Schultz, Rachel E. G. (grandniece)

  Schwartz, Delmore

  death of

  friendship with

  mentioned

  as model for Von Humboldt Fleischer

  paranoid episode of

  Schwartz, Joan Ullman

  Schwartz, Jonas

  Seager, Allen

  seasickness

  Seize the Day (Bellow)

  self-absorption

  self-consciousness

  self-discovery and examination

  self-image

  77 Dream Songs (Berryman)

  Sexton, Anne

  sexuality

  Shachtman, Max

  Shachtman, Yetta Barshevsky

  Shafer, Margaret

  Shahar, David

  Shahar, Shula

  Shamir, Yitzhak

  Shapiro, Benny

  Shapiro, Karl

/>   Shapiro, Manny

  Shattuck, Roger

  Shechner, Mark

  Shepherd, Elizabeth

  Shils, Edward

  Bellow joins faculty of Committee on Social Thought

  Bellow on Chicago weather and valued colleagues

  Bellow on writing and Committee on Social Thought

  correspondence with

  discussion of plane crash and traveling

  mentioned

  opinions of

  Sidran, Ben

  Sidran, Ezra

  Sidran, Louis

  Sifton, Elisabeth

  Silber, John

  “A Silver Dish” (story)

  Simenon, Georges

  Simmons, Edward

  Simmons, Margaret Staats (“Maggie”)

  attraction to

  break with

  discussions of writing with

  friendship with

  health issues of

  letters from Israel to

  letters from Italy to

  love letters to

  Simpson, Eileen

  Simpson, Louis

  Singer, Barnett

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis

  Sinyavsky, Alexander

  Six-Day War

  the Sixties

  slander

  Slate, Hymen

  Smith College

  Smith, K. Corlies (“Cork”)

  Smith, Mark

  snobbery

  socialism

  sociology

  Socrates

  solitude

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

  Sondra, see Tschacbasov, Sondra

  Sontag, Susan

  soul

  Soviet Union

  Spain

  Spanish Travelers anthology

  speaking engagements

  Blashfield Address

  in Chicago and Pittsburgh

  Columbia University

  fatigue and

  missed

  Moody Lecture at University of Chicago

  Nobel Prize Lecture

  opinion of

  tiring of

  verbal attack at San Francisco State

  Spender, Stephen

  spirituality

  “Spring Ode” (poem)

  Staats, Margaret, see Simmons, Margaret Staats

  Stalinism

  “The Starched Blue Sky of Spain” (Herbst)

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinberg, Saul

  Steiner, George

  Steiner, Rudolf

  Stendhal

  Stern, Gay

  Stern, Richard

  Bellow on Herzog and The Noble Savage

  Bellow on writing The Upper Depths

  Bellow recommends for Guggenheim

  Bellow’s divorce from Sondra

  Bellow’s musings on love

  discussions of writing and family

  friendship with

  review of Catch-22

  Stonehill, Brian

  Story (journal)

  Strada Palas

  Stravinsky memoir

  Strehler, Giorgio

  Styron, William

  subversiveness and humanism

  success

  suffering

  superfluous nature of man

  Swados, Harvey

  Swedish Academy

  symposium of writers

  Tarcov, Edith

  Tarcov, Miriam

  Tarcov, Nathan

  Tarcov, Oscar

  anthropology and

  apologies to

  arguments with

  Bellow on Susan’s move to Chicago

  Bellow reviews Tarcov’s novel

  Bellow’s friction with Isaac Rosenberg

  Bellow’s tentative first novel and

  congratulates on publication of book

  correspondence with

  death of

  description of life in Paris

  friendship with Bellow and Rosenfeld

  health issues of

  opinion of David Bazelon’s writing

  postcard from Italy to

  Taylor, Harold

  Tel Aviv

  Les Temps Modernes (journal)

  Terkel, Studs

  Thatcher, Margaret

  theater people

  “A Theft” (story)

  Thomas, Dylan

  Thomes, Boyd

  “The Thoughts of Sgt. George Flavin,”

  time

  Titoism

  Tivoli, New York house

  To Jerusalem and Back (Bellow)

  Tolstoy, Leo

  totalitarianism

  “The Transcendentalist” (Emerson)

  transformation as goal of writing

  translations of Bellow titles

  Trilling, Diana

  Trilling, Lionel

  Bellow discusses book critics with

  Bellow discusses Emerson and Augie March with

  Bellow’s opinion of

  correspondence with

  Guggenheim fellowship and

  mentioned

  Trotsky, Leon (The Old Man)

  Trotskyism

  Troup, Stanley B.

  truth

  as goal of writing

  obligations to

  study of Barfield’s books and

  true meaning and information

  truthfulness as human instinct

  Tschacbasov, Sondra (“Sasha”)

  alimony, custody, and parenting issues

  Bellow’s divorce from Anita and

 

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