Posted on April 10, 2005 by Scott Johnson

The demands of good prose

Since his death last week I haven’t come across much that captured the contribution of Saul Bellow to American literature, but in a column for Slate his former Viking editor Elisabeth Sifton provides a memorable portrait of the artist at work: “Editing Saul Bellow.”

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