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...paid homage to John Coltrane while also slyly referencing the suffering of apartheid....
...Still, this neutrality allows W&N’s outsize authors to shine, from predatory Bellow to dilatory Jagger. We finish, though, in twilit serenity....
...Wiley bellows his political points; Hendricks purrs of friends and acquaintances....
...McCarthy fathered a second son, John, with his third wife Jennifer Winkley, in 1999, when he was 66....
...True literary heroes, for Amis, lay across the Atlantic: Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth. And he was out to shock....
...she bellows at the team whenever they treat her with any degree of carefulness. She can still command a room. But she can also enjoy a dollop of playful teasing....
...Then there’s the disappointment of a novel in which the dying light of the author is all too evident — think Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein or Norman Mailer’s lamentable The Castle in the Forest....
...The plangent bellow of a stag while I bedded down on the peaty expanse of Rannoch Moor near the end of my West Highland Way hike — so loud and near it felt like it was standing sentinel outside the tent....
...Waits bellows, opening his arms. “Frankenstein’s monster,” she hisses and says she’ll only forgive him if he writes a song for her....
...But its bellow was American....
...By the time I got home, the unfamiliar sensation that someone was squeezing my shoulders like a pair of bellows hadn’t dissipated....
...Comparing Roth’s work with that of other giants of postwar American literature such as John Updike and Don DeLillo, Bailey declares that it “stands the best chance of enduring”....
...He experiences terse dealings with novelist John Fowles — in an aside, Gekoski comments that Fowles’s epic The Magus is “the only book I have ever thrown out of the window”....
...It was hard, pausing in St John’s Wood to read this, not to shiver with a sense of London’s ruin ourselves. Yet Wells, having put the city on the verge of obliteration, had chosen to redeem it....
...Snow, by John Banville, Faber, RRP£14.99, 352 pages There’s a colonel, there’s a candlestick, and there’s a body in the library....
...Secretary to clubbable defence attorney EB (John Lithgow), Perry’s occasional employer, she visibly chafes at the limitations of her womanly role....
...“These people are so old,” he bellows in “Parents”, with scant regard for social distancing measures or the trillions of potential coronavirus particles that he was spraying around through his plosive vocal...
...Johnson was appalled and, prompted by House speaker John McCormack, decided to call a special joint session of Congress....
...In 1983, he co-founded a group that became the American Foundation for Resistance International, with figures such as the writer Saul Bellow and diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick on its advisory board, dedicated...
...But it is also elegiac about the spirits of those dead white male authors (Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow are name-checked; Kingsley Amis haunts unannounced) who wrote the type of book that inspired...
...“They yelled and shouted when they were angry — they would bellow,” says Callil. “I think that was a bad inheritance for here [England].”...
...“These are golden properties,” says Wylie, who represents the literary estates of authors including Saul Bellow and VS Naipaul....
...I saw it while heading to the John Peel tent, named after the deceased British DJ who championed obscure and challenging music....
...In one, an increasingly exasperated chairman bellows: “It doesn’t work like that, councillor” and “what part of the constitution don’t you understand?”...
...In 1664, for example, Robert Hooke inserted a pipe into the trachea of a dog and pumped in air with bellows....
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