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...leading catbirds, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman and Apollo's Leon Black, happen to be old pals of Silverman's. In the 1980s, Silverman too was an LBO artist, working alongside corporate raider Saul Steinberg and funding his exploits with Michael Milken's Drexel junk bonds. Then, as a partner at Blackstone in the early 1990s, he sniffed a change in the financial winds, cobbled together a few struggling hotel chains (starting with Ramada and Howard Johnson) into Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS), took the company public and stayed...
...Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. These are people I did not read in school. I read Bellow a little bit in school but I didn’t really understand...
...There’s the great Saul Bellow quote that “a writer is just a reader moved to emulation.” And so for me, the first step in writing my novel, was [to] read a ton of chick lit to get the voice...
...Saul Bellow Henderson the Rain King Bellow's tale about a millionaire on a spiritual journey in central Africa has been hailed as a feat of vivid imagination. Other critics called his vision of the continent just plain silly, or even racist...
...world. Miraculous. But also the result of an infusion of about $43 billion in American Government aid over the years, and millions more contributed privately by Jews in America and elsewhere. ''The Israelis have produced a modern country -- doorknobs and hinges, plumbing fixtures, electrical supplies, chamber music, airplanes, teacups,'' Saul Bellow has written. ''It is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provision for everything . . . These people are actively, individually engaged in universal history. I don't see how they can bear it.'' Still...