Today in history: June 15, 2013 In 1913: Ten barrels of Bohemian beer arrived in Happy Camp by pack train the previous Saturday night. The next day everybody in the town was drunk, five or six men and a few boys excepted. As a climax, Will Bellew took five shots at N.B. Baker. Bellow was of unsteady aim and he missed Baker every time.
June 15, 2013 - The Record Searchlight
Philip Roth in FOXNews To my mind, Saul Bellow and William Faulkner form the backbone of 20th-century American literature,Roth said in a statement given to The Associated Press.
Jonathan Franzen in USA Today The extreme margins of the stable, familiar world of Saul Bellow - and of most novelists, including me - are at the extreme normal end of Mr. Purdy's world,Franzen said during a formal ceremony in Manhattan. "He takes up where the rest of...