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  discussion of reviews of their writing

  discussion of The Victim with

  discussions of politics and revolution

  mutual friend Margaret

  opinion of Bellow’s writing

  Paris and France

  reading, translating, and writing

  remarks on Rome to

  University of Minnesota

  Beach, Joseph Warren

  The Beacon

  Begin, Menachim

  Behrstock, Julian

  Bellevue Hospital

  Bellow, Adam (son)

  affection for

  college career of

  conversations with

  correspondence with

  custody and parenting issues

  infancy and childhood

  visits with

  Bellow, Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea

  career in mathematics

  divorce from

  mentioned

  Romanian family of

  Bellow, Daniel (son)

  affection for

  bar mitzvah of

  correspondence with

  marriage of

  mentioned

  visits with

  Bellow, Gregory (son)

  childhood

  college and

  letter about alimony to

  marriage of

  mentioned

  visits with

  Bellow, Janis Freedman

  doctoral studies of

  marriage to

  relationship with

  Bellow, Maurice (brother)

  Bellow, Naomi Rose (daughter)

  Bellow, Sam (brother)

  Bellow, Susan Glassman

  alimony and child support issues

  discussions of writing with

  move to Chicago

  relationship with

  settlement payment

  Belo, Abram (father)

  arguments with

  immigration and career of

  money from

  reaction to death of

  relationship with

  respect for

  Belo, Liza (mother)

  Bentley, Eric

  Berghof, Herbert

  Berlin, Isaiah

  Bernick, Isadore

  Berryman, John

  alcoholism of

  Bellow’s opinion of

  children of

  discussions of poetry and death

  discussions of poetry and writing

  friendship with

  literary magazine work

  suicide of

  Berryman, Kate

  Best, Marshall

  bibliophilia

  Billy Phelan (Kennedy)

  Birstein, Ann

  Blackmur, R.P.

  Blake, William

  Bloom, Allan

  death of

  friendship with

  illness of

  mentioned

  Ravelstein and

  teaching with

  Bloom, Claire

  Bloom, Harold

  Blücher, Heinrich

  Böll, Heinrich

  Bollingen Prize for poetry

  bolshevism

  Borok, Dean

  Boston University

  Bostonia (journal)

  Botsford, Keith

  Bellow’s divorce from Sondra

  Bellow’s opinion of

  hip surgery of

  news of family visits

  sadness over Covici’s death

  staying with in Puerto Rico

  The Republic of Letters and

  work on Anon with

  work on The Noble Savage with

  Botstein, Leon

  Boyers, Robert

  Bradley, Mrs. Wm. A.

  Brandeis, Irma

  Brandeis University

  Breit, Harvey

  Briggs-Copeland Fellowship

  Brodie, Steve

  Brodkey, Harold

  Brogan, Denis

  Browder, Earl

  Brown, Huntington

  Buckman, Gertrude

  Burlingame, Edward

  Burnett, Whit

  Burnshaw, Stanley

  Bush, George H. W.

  “By the Rock Wall” (story)

  “By the Saint Lawrence” (story)

  Camus, Albert

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carver, Catharine (“Katie”) DeFrance

  Case, James H., Jr.

  A Case of Love (unfinished novel)

  Catton, Bruce

  Céline, L.-F.

  censorship

  The Century Association

  Cermak, Anton

  Chambers, Whittaker

  Chapman, Chanler

  Chapman, Sara S.

  characters

  in The Actual

  Allbee in The Victim

  basis in real people

  Bummidge in The Last Analysis

  Charlie Citrine in Humboldt’s Gift

  development of

  discussions about Augie March

  discussions with Keith Opdahl about

  Leventhal in The Victim

  Chase, Richard V.

  Cheever, John

  Chiaromonte, Nicola (“Nick”)

  Chicago

  description of people in

  memories of childhood in

  opinions of

  Susan moves to

  winter weather

  writers’ images of

  Chilton, Nola

  Choate, Catherine Lindsay

  Circle in the Square production of The Last Analysis

  citizenship

  civilization

  Clark, Eleanor

  Cogan, Zita

  cognitive writing

  Cole, Toby

  Collected Stories (Bellow)

  Colt Press

  comedy

  advantages of comedic writing

  as element of Henderson the Rain King

  as element of More Die of Heartbreak

  intent of Augie March and

  Italian

  The Upper Depths

  wretchedness and comedic writing

  writing comedic pieces

  Commentary (journal)

  Committee for the Free World

  Committee on Social Thought

  Communist Party, American

  conferences, dislike of

  Connolly, Cyril

  Conrad, Joseph

  conservatism

  Corbin, Esther

  Covici, Dorothy

  Covici, Pascal (“Pat”)

  becomes Bellow’s editor

  Bellow’s divorce from Sondra

  Bellow’s Israel trip

  Bellow’s San Francisco trip

  death of

  Covici, Pascal (“Pat”) (cont.)

  discussion of writing and Ford Foundation grant

  discussions of speaking engagements and book sales

  discussions of writing

  mentioned

  Cowley, Malcolm

  The Crab and the Butterfly (Bellow)

  craft of writing

  Craft, Robert

  Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)

  criticism

  Bellow’s criticisms of Jack Ludwig

  Bellow’s critique of Elkin’s writing

  dealing with

  of Jerusalem book

  Louis Simpson’s attack on Bellow

  reading about himself and

  of Whit Burnett

  critics

  Bellow’s note to Phillips

  Bellow’s thoughts on

  reviews of Augie March and

  Crouch, Stanley

  cultural understanding

  cultural void

  “Culture Now” essay

  Cummings, E. E.

  cynicism

  Dajani, Virginia

  Daley, Richard J.

  Dangling Man (Bellow)

  Dannhauser, Werner

  darkness as literary theme
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  The Dean’s December (Bellow)

  death

  Debray, Régis

  Decter, Midge

  “Deep Readers of the World, Beware!” article

  Demjanjuk, John

  democracy

  depression

  destiny

  distribution of books

  diversity in storytelling

  divorce

  dogs

  doing things out of sight

  Don Quixote (Cervantes)

  Donadio, Candida

  Donat, Alexander

  “Dora” (story)

  Dostoyevsky

  draft deferments

  dreams

  “Dr.Pep” (story)

  Dubin’s Lives (Malamud)

  Dunsky-Shnay, Zipporah

  earnestness

  The Economist (journal)

  egomania

  Eisenhower, Dwight

  Eliade, Mircea

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elkin, Stanley

  Ellison, Fanny

  Ellison, Ralph

  Bellow solicits magazine submission from

  Bellow’s divorce from Sondra

  Bellow’s eulogy of

  Bellow’s memories of

  description of Puerto Rico

  discussions of family and writing

  discussions of health

  Tivoli house and

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Encounter (journal)

  Encyclopedia Britannica

  enemies

  Engel, Monroe

  Bellow’s Guggenheim application and

  Bellow’s letter from Paris

  discussion of Isaac Rosenfeld

  end of editorial relationship with Bellow

  mentioned

  reports on writing progress to

  entropy

  Epstein, Joseph

  Epstein, Seymour

  Erskine, Albert

  Esquire

  esthetics

  Europe (Stern)

  exile

  “Expect the Vandals” (Roth)

  Experience (Amis)

  exposing the seeming, American literature and

  Falconer (Cheever)

  fame

  Farago, Ladislas

  Farrell, James T.

  father, see Belo, Abram

  fatigue

  Faulkner, William

  Fellini, Federico

  Feltrinelli, Giangiacomo

  Feltrinelli, Inge

  festination

  Fiedler, Leslie

  First Loyalty (Lourie)

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, fantasy story about

  Flaubert, Gustave

  fools

  Ford Foundation grant

  forgetfulness

  Fowler, H. W.

  France

  Frankel, Max

  Freedman, Janis, see Bellow, Janis Freedman

  Freifeld, Rochelle

  Freifeld, Samuel

  discussion of exile

  family troubles of

  friendship with

  hard work of

  mentioned

  postcards from Bellow

  reaction to Augie March

  Freud, Sigmund

  friendships

  appreciation for

  with Barley Alison

  with Catherine Lindsay Choate

  discussions of with Fiedler

  forced

  with Harriet Wasserman

  with Henry Volkening

  loss of

  maintaining

  with Oscar Tarcov

  rift with David Bazelon over Margaret

  Fuchs, Daniel

  Furet, François

  Gallimard (French publisher)

  Gallo, Louis

  Gendlin, Frances

  Gill, Brendan

  Gillman, Mr.

  Ginsberg, Allen

  Ginsberg, Harvey

  Glassman, Susan, see Bellow, Susan Glassman

  Gloria Mundi (Clark)

  Glotzer, Albert

  Glück, Louise

  God’s Grace (Malamud)

  Godwin, Anthony

  Gold, Herbert

  Gold Medal for Fiction Award

  Goldberg, Samuel S.

  Bellow on divorce from Susan

  Bellow on Seize the Day

  bibliophilia of

  friendship with

  mentioned

  owing money to

  Goldenweiser, Alexander Alexandrovich

  Goldknopf, David

  Goldstein, Nathan

  good intentions

  Goodman, Paul

  Gordimer, Nadine

  Gordin, Karina

  Goshkin, Anita (wife)

  alimony and

  Bellow’s divorce from

  Bellow’s quarrels with

  career of

  desire to move to Europe

  family troubles of

  Northwestern University radicals and

  opinion of Bellow’s writing

  opinion of Melvin Tumin

  Goshkin, Catherine

  Gould, Nathan

  Grass, Günter

  Great Books Project

  Great Jewish Short Stories

  Greenberg, Clement

  Greenberg, Willie

  Greene, Graham

  Greenwich Village

  Grene, David

  grief

  Grimson, Todd

  the grotesque

  Guggenheim Memorial Foundation