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Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir

Photo: Daniel Bellow pictured with his father Saul in 1969
Michael Mauney/Time & Life Pictures

Greg Bellow grew up in the shadow of a famous father, Nobel Prize winning writer Saul Bellow.  For most of their time together the relationship was contentious and their views often clashed, but Greg Bellow says that after his father’s death in 2005, he began to understand how conflicted his father had become as an older man, and he began to appreciate the toll writing had taken on his father’s life.

Hear the full conversation at The Story's website. Also in this show: A whale singing at an unusual frequency roams the Pacific Ocean, calling out with the regularity of a metronome, but never hearing a response; and essayist and novelist Andrew Lam on meeting his hero, fiction writer Russell Banks.

Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.
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