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Article: Mr Bellow's Planet
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- Jerusalem Post
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- May 26, 1995
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David Brauner
Jerusalem Post
05-26-1995
CONVERSATIONS WITH SAUL BELLOW edited by Gloria L. Cronin and Ben Siegel. Jackson, Mississippi, University of Mississippi Press. 303 pp. Price not stated.
Soon after Saul Bellow's first novel, Dangling Man, was published in 1944, he joined Time magazine as a film critic. "I was young, inexperienced, and tired of knocking about," he recalled many years later in an interview.
"It was a short-lived career," the interviewer reports. "On Bellow's second day, Time senior editor Whittaker Chambers, who would win notoriety as Alger Hiss's accuser, asked Bellow what he thought of Wordsworth. 'What does that have to do with film reviewing?' asked ...