New Saul Bellow Volumes Among Summer Book Recommendations
Last week, the literary world observed the 100th birthday of Saul Bellow, the late American Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novelist.
Bellow, who died in 2005, is the subject of a new biography by Zachary Leader, “The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame And Fortune,” which traces the first 50 years of the novelist’s life.
A volume of Bellow’s essays and criticism, “There Is Simply Too Much To Think About: Collected Nonfiction,” was published recently to mark his centenary.
A Capella Books founder and owner Frank Reiss discussed the work of Bellow with “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes – in particular a reissue of the 1964 novel “Herzog.”
Reiss’ other summer best bets include “A Clear View of a Southern Sky,” a new collection by Georgia short story writer Mary Hood, with a foreward by Pat Conroy, who has been a big champion of her career.
Noted education and poverty journalist Jonathan Kozol has written a memoir, “The Theft of Memory,” detailing his physician father’s struggle with dementia.
There’s another reissue on Reiss’ list – a lively 1975 autobiography by former major league baseball player Joe Pepitone entitled “Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud.”
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