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...MacArthur Foundation got wind of McCarthy about the time Suttree was * coming along, and in 1981 he was awarded one of its genius grants. Shelby Foote said, "I told the MacArthur people that he would be honoring them as much as they were honoring him." Saul Bellow mentioned his "absolutely overpowering use of language, his life-giving and death-dealing sentences." Part of the grant money went to free the author from tumbledown motels: he bought a dog-eared little stone-and-stucco affair the color of mayonnaise left out too long, a dirt yard out front and no space...
...defining moment for the made-from-TV movie -- a secular equivalent of Saul struck blind on the road to Damascus -- came one night in the mid-1980s. Producer Permut was channel surfing. "I saw an old rerun of Dragnet," he recalls, "and two stations away, a rerun of Saturday Night Live with Dan Aykroyd." Permut's Dragnet, with Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, became a hit in the summer of 1987 (another moneymaker that season was The Untouchables, with Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness). "Since then," Permut says, "I've been brought just about every TV show imaginable. Last week somebody...
...Saul Bellow kvetches winningly in a collection of essays...
...Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up (Viking; 327 pages; $24.95) adds up to a stimulating kvetch, a nonfiction Herzog. Like that novel's title character, Bellow shows himself in this collection of essays and criticism to be a great complainer and world worrier. He is, as the Herzog jacket copy described the book's hero 30 years ago, someone who "cannot keep from asking what he calls the 'piercing questions...
...failed to see the sophisticated argument taking place behind this parody; it was a kind of "meta-editorial," if you will. He also failed to recognize that my parody was an embodiment of the laughter of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, a laughter which observes few limits (as Bakhtin scholars Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson have pointed out). In fact, this irreverent Bakhtinian laughter is what our good friends Beavis and Butthead draw on so liberally...