They don’t say that about Idi Amin
Andrew O’Hagan: Bellow Whinges, 6 January 2011
Saul Bellow: Letters
edited by Benjamin Taylor.
Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010,978 0 670 02221 2 Show More
edited by Benjamin Taylor.
Viking, 571 pp., $35, November 2010,
“... notion that replying to letters was nothing if not a complete and utter waste of time. To Ralph Ellison: ‘I’ve never enjoyed writing letters. Vasiliki says that Isaac, whose journals she took after his death, had some uncomplimentary things to say about the way I answered letters. I deserve them. There is some wickedness hidden here and I ... ”