Lobstergirl’s Reviews > The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 > Status Update
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Bellow's tastes and habits were precise. Janis "learned to make coffee the Ralph Ellison way, the right amount, in a particular cup." He was also particular about breakfast. With cereal, he liked bananas, but "only seven slices."
— Aug 23, 2019 08:07PM
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"Who was that attractive woman you were talking to?" Susan's friend Margo Howard asked her. "One of Saul's old mistresses," Susan said. "During whose marriage?" the friend asked. "Mine," she answered.
— Aug 24, 2019 10:09PM
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In a 1996 class at Boston University Bellow bans papers on the topic of Color in The Great Gatsby.
— Aug 24, 2019 10:07PM
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For all his neuroses, Singer belongs on the saner end of a line of unstable correspondents whose letters Bellow felt worth reading and keeping (in files labeled "Abuse," "Problem Mail," "Nuts.").
— Aug 22, 2019 10:24PM
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At a seminar at Caltech Bellow was asked how he started writing every day. He explained that "first he checked his typewriter to see that all the letters of the alphabet were still there."
— Aug 22, 2019 10:14PM
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"Juliet [Bellow's first grandchild] was born about five weeks ago. I have a picture of her and she doesn't yet look worth flying to California to see."
— Aug 20, 2019 09:44PM
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Arriving at a university arts center to give a talk, Bellow refused to begin until a bust of Hemingway was carried from the room.
— Aug 20, 2019 09:43PM
