Donald Barthelme's Reading List
A reading list Donald Barthelme composed for his students. "In no apparent order, just read them."
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10 June 1915–5 April 2005
Also known as Bellow, Saul., Bellow Saul
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.[2] He is the only writer to have won the National Book Award three times, and the only writer to have been nominated for it six times.
Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Saul Bellow.
A reading list Donald Barthelme composed for his students. "In no apparent order, just read them."
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This novel belongs largely to the same species as those written by Updike, Cheever, etc. - white male writers from Northern suburbs who were straining against the narrow confines of American masculinity in the 60s and 70s. For the most part, I've never cared…
I haven’t read a lot of books about friendship between two older men, nor a lot about aging and dying. You can sort of tell this is a minor novel but (putting aside the fact that they’re all basically my grandfather so i’m inclined to like them) these midcent…