correspondence with Louis Gallo about
demise of
first issue of
praised by Edmund Wilson
second issue of
slow publication schedule of
normalcy
Northwestern University
Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin)
Notre Dame Cathedral
novels
The Novels of Saul Bellow (Opdahl)
New York University
Oates, Joyce Carol
Oaxaca
objectivity
Obolensky, Prince Dimitri Dimitrievich
O’Brien, Edna
“The Old System” (story)
On Native Grounds (Kazin)
Ontario Review
Opdahl, Keith
Oppenheimer, Yaddi
oppression
oral miserliness
Orwell, George
Orwell, Sonia Brownell
overconfidence of writers
Ozick, Cynthia
pacifism
Paley, Grace
Paonescu, Ana
Paris
Parker, Dorothy
Partington, Lucy
Partisan Review (PR)
announcement of “Dr.Pep” in
early publications in
Jean Stafford’s writing in
opinions of
publication of Augie March chapter in
travel-letter in
Passin, Cora
Passin, Herb
Anita Goshkin and
Bellow’s friendship with
conversations with
loss of contact with
relationships with women
son Thomas
Patrimony (Roth)
Peltz, David
annoyance at Bellow
friendship with
mentioned
PEN International Congress
People
“People to People” Committee
Perot, Ross
Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers’ College
pets
Phillips, William
Piccolo Teatro (Milan)
Pipes, Richard
Piscator, Erwin
plane travel
plays
completion of The Last Analysis
Lillian Hellman’s opinion of The Last Analysis
production of The Last Analysis
reviews of
The Upper Depths
writing of
PM (journal)
Podhoretz, Norman,
poetry
Bellow’s praise of Bobby Markels
Bellow’s “Spring Ode” poem
John Berryman’s
Robert Penn Warren’s
Poland
polemical literature
politics
being Jewish and
Bellow on Stalinism
Bellow’s nomination of Teddy Kollek for Nobel Peace Prize
Committee for the Free World and
discussions with David Bazelon about
discussions with Leon Wieseltier about
Israel and
opinion of office of President
praise for Stanley Crouch’s writing
racial politics in Chicago
writers’ responsibilities to political life
Yetta Barshevsky and
politics (journal)
Pollitt, Katha
Positano
postal system
Potok, Chaim
Pound, Ezra
Power in America: The Politics of the New Class (Bazelon)
Powers, J. F.
Pozen, Walter
PR, see Partisan Review
“prepared” attitudes
Prince of Darkness and Other Stories (Powers)
principles
Pritchett, V.S.
procrastination
Progressive Book Club
promotion of Bellow’s writing
prophets
Proust, Marcel
provincialism
Pryce-Jones, David
psychoanalysis
psychology
Puerto Rico
Pulitzer Prize
“The Pulley” (story)
Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Queens College
Rahv, Philip
Ramanujan, A. K.
Ransom, John Crowe
Ravelstein (Bellow)
Ray, Gordon
readers
Reagan, Ronald
reality
“reality instructors,”
Reedy, George
Reich, Wilhelm
relationships with women
Arlette Landes
escape from feeling troubled by ladies
Frances Gendlin
letter to Evelyn
Pearl
in Poland
in Tel Aviv
religion
Remnick, David
reviews, see criticism; critics
revolution
Richardson, Jack
Rockefeller Grant application
Roethke, Theodore
Romania
Rome
Roosevelt, Karyl
Roscoe (Kennedy)
Rosenberg, Harold
Rosenfeld, Isaac
Bellow teaching at NYU and
Bellow’s view of
death of
doctoral studies of
financial worries of
friendship with Bellow and Tarcov
Guggenheim fellowship of
as irritant
James Atlas article on
journals of
Mark Shechner’s lecture on
poetry of
psychotherapy and
radio writing for Jewish People’s Committee
return to Chicago after doctoral studies
slackening of correspondence with
on volunteering for army service
Rosenfeld, Vasiliki
Ross, Ralph
Roth, Philip
discussions of writing with
friendship with
visits with
Roth, William
Rozanov, Vasily
Ruben Whitfield (lost early novel)
Rubenfeld, Florence
Rushdie, Salman
Russell & Volkening Literary Agency
Russell, Diarmuid
Sacks, Oliver
sages
Said, Edward
Sakharov, Andrei
Salas, Floyd
Salter, James
San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco State University
Sarant, George
Sarda, Jack
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sasha, see Tschacbasov, Sondra
Saturday Review of Literature
Saul Bellow (Miller)
Saving the Appearances (Barfield)
Schapiro, Meyer
Scholem, Gershom
Schultz, Rachel E. G. (grandniece)
Schwartz, Delmore
death of
friendship with
mentioned
as model for Von Humboldt Fleischer
paranoid episode of
Schwartz, Joan Ullman
Schwartz, Jonas
Seager, Allen
seasickness
Seize the Day (Bellow)
self-absorption
self-consciousness
self-discovery and examination
self-image
77 Dream Songs (Berryman)
Sexton, Anne
sexuality
Shachtman, Max
Shachtman, Yetta Barshevsky
Shafer, Margaret
Shahar, David
Shahar, Shula
Shamir, Yitzhak
Shapiro, Benny
Shapiro, Karl
Shapiro, Manny
Shattuck, Roger
Shechner, Mark
Shepherd, Elizabeth
Shils, Edward
Bellow joins faculty of Committee on Social Thought
Bellow on Chicago weather and valued colleagues
Bellow on writing and Committee on Social Thought
correspondence with
discussion of plane crash and traveling
mentioned
opinions of
Sidran, Ben
Sidran, Ezra
Sidran, Louis
Sifton, Elisabeth
Silber, John
“A Silver Dish” (story)
Simenon, Georges
Simmons, Edward
Simmons, Margaret Staats (“Maggie”)
attraction to
break with
discussions of writing with
friendship with
health issues of
letters from Israel to
letters from Italy to
love letters to
Simpson, Eileen
Simpson, Louis
Singer, Barnett
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Sinyavsky, Alexander
Six-Day War
the Sixties
slander
Slate, Hymen
Smith College
Smith, K. Corlies (“Cork”)
Smith, Mark
snobbery
socialism
sociology
Socrates
solitude
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Sondra, see Tschacbasov, Sondra
Sontag, Susan
soul
Soviet Union
Spain
Spanish Travelers anthology
speaking engagements
Blashfield Address
in Chicago and Pittsburgh
Columbia University
fatigue and
missed
Moody Lecture at University of Chicago
opinion of
tiring of
verbal attack at San Francisco State
Spender, Stephen
spirituality
“Spring Ode” (poem)
Staats, Margaret, see Simmons, Margaret Staats
Stalinism
“The Starched Blue Sky of Spain” (Herbst)
Steinbeck, John
Steinberg, Saul
Steiner, George
Steiner, Rudolf
Stendhal
Stern, Gay
Stern, Richard
Bellow on Herzog and The Noble Savage
Bellow on writing The Upper Depths
Bellow recommends for Guggenheim
Bellow’s divorce from Sondra
Bellow’s musings on love
discussions of writing and family
friendship with
review of Catch-22
Stonehill, Brian
Story (journal)
Strada Palas
Stravinsky memoir
Strehler, Giorgio
Styron, William
subversiveness and humanism
success
suffering
superfluous nature of man
Swados, Harvey
Swedish Academy
symposium of writers
Tarcov, Edith
Tarcov, Miriam
Tarcov, Nathan
Tarcov, Oscar
anthropology and
apologies to
arguments with
Bellow on Susan’s move to Chicago
Bellow reviews Tarcov’s novel
Bellow’s friction with Isaac Rosenberg
Bellow’s tentative first novel and
congratulates on publication of book
correspondence with
death of
description of life in Paris
friendship with Bellow and Rosenfeld
health issues of
opinion of David Bazelon’s writing
postcard from Italy to
Taylor, Harold
Tel Aviv
Les Temps Modernes (journal)
Terkel, Studs
Thatcher, Margaret
theater people
“A Theft” (story)
Thomas, Dylan
Thomes, Boyd
“The Thoughts of Sgt. George Flavin,”
time
Titoism
Tivoli, New York house
To Jerusalem and Back (Bellow)
Tolstoy, Leo
totalitarianism
“The Transcendentalist” (Emerson)
transformation as goal of writing
translations of Bellow titles
Trilling, Diana
Trilling, Lionel
Bellow discusses book critics with
Bellow discusses Emerson and Augie March with
Bellow’s opinion of
correspondence with
Guggenheim fellowship and
mentioned
Trotsky, Leon (The Old Man)
Trotskyism
Troup, Stanley B.
truth
as goal of writing
obligations to
study of Barfield’s books and
true meaning and information
truthfulness as human instinct
Tschacbasov, Sondra (“Sasha”)
alimony, custody, and parenting issues
Bellow’s divorce from Anita and