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Saul Bellow’s Centenary Prompts the Question: Can He Make It With Millennials?

Past Master

Can the brainy, discursive Nobel Prize-winning novelist find fans among attention-deficient millennials? And with which novel should they should they start?

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Ulf Andersen

The intelligent, literate young man at the TV production office where I work—aged 26 or 27—shocked me recently by admitting that he hadn’t read anything by Saul Bellow.

My colleague, an English major with an Ivy League degree, wanted to know which of Bellow’s novels to read first.

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