There Is Simply Too Much To Think About Av Benjamin Taylor, Saul Bellow

<p><b>“Bellow’s nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place, and time (or era) . . . And you wonder—what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets?” —Martin Amis, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <br> One of the supreme fiction writers of the twentieth century, Nobel laureate Saul Bellow was also deeply insightful in his lesser-known roles as essayist, critic, and lecturer. Gathered together in this stunning compilation, Bellow’s vast range of nonfiction reveals the same wit, daring, and wisdom that distinguish <i>The Adventures of Augie March</i>, <i>Henderson the Rain King</i>, <i>Herzog</i>, <i>Humboldt’s Gift</i>, and other masterly novels. In <i>There Is Simply Too Much to Think About</i>, as in the novels, the twentieth century comes fiercely to life through Bell