Description: Renowned writer Saul Bellow reflects on the times in which we live and the craft of writing. Bellow asks what meaningful words are left to write in the face of such events as revolutions, world wars, the atom bomb, and who would take the time to read them if new words were found or invented. Fortunately Faulkner is no longer alive, and unfortunately, neither is Hemingway.
Brief description: Gloria L. Cronin, a professor of English at Brigham Young University, is author of A Room of His Own: In Search of the Feminine in the Novels of Saul Bellow and Small Planets: Saul Bellow and the Art of Short Fiction and coeditor (with Ben Siegel) of Conversations with Saul Bellow and Conversations with Robert Penn Warren, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.