Israel
Italy
James, Henry
Japan
“The Jefferson Lectures” excerpt
Jerusalem
Jesus
Jewish People’s Committee
Jewishness
American society and
Bellow’s
Bellow’s critique of Stanley Elkin and
in Cynthia Ozick’s
Messiah of Stockholm
discussions with Leon Wieseltier
fellow writers and
the Holocaust and
as “marketable,”
as theme in Bellow’s writing
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Samuel
journalism
journalists
Joyce, James
Kamlani, Beena
Kaplan, Harold (“Kappy”)
Kaplan, Justin
Kaplan, Roger
Karlen, Arno
Kauffman, Charles
Kauffman, Jane (sister)
Kauffman, Lawrence
Kaufman, Abe
Kazin, Alfred
discussion of mutual friends
discussions about writing
discussions of family
friendship with
invitation to Tivoli house
memoir-essay on Bellow
opinion of Bellow’s early writing
remarks on Bard College to
remarks on Paris to
review of
Seize the Day
Kazin, Ann (Birstein)
Kennedy, Eugene C.
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy, William
Kenner, Hugh
Kenyon Review
Kerrigan, Anthony
Kibbutz S’dot Yam
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Kiernan, Frances
Kirchner, Leon
Kleinbard, Jonathan
Klonsky, Milton
knowing one’s mind
Koch, Sigmund
Koestler, Arthur
Kołakowski, Leszek
Kollek, Teddy
Konstantinovski, Ilya
Kopit, Arthur
Korean War
Krim, Seymour
Landau, Bananas
Landau, Bernice Meyer
Landes, Arlette
Lang, Jack
Lapp, Rudy
Lasco, Louis
friendship with
illness of
Lasky, Melvin
The Last Analysis
(play)
Laughlin, James
Lawrence, D. H.
laziness
Leggett, John
Lehmann, John
leisure
Leites, Nathan
Leninism
Lennon, John
Les Justes
(play)
letter to Evelyn
letters
apologies for not writing
difficulty of writing
gratefulness for letters from friends
value of
Levi, Primo
Lewis, Sinclair
Lieber, Maxim
The Life of John Berryman
(Haffenden)
light as literary theme
Lily
(opera based on
Henderson the Rain King)
Linder, Erich
Lindley, Denver
literature
“literary culture,”
“literary loyalty,”
love of
merit of written vs. constructed portions of novels
polemical
teaching of
living abroad
loneliness
“Looking for Mr. Green” (story)
Lourie, Richard
love
Bellow’s thoughts on
feeling unloved by Anita
feminine beliefs about
for friends
as salvation
as theme of
Herzog
women’s ability to make distinctions about
Love and Death in the American Novel
(Fiedler)
“low seriousness,”
Lowell, Robert
Ludwig, Jack
Maccoby, Hyam
Macdonald, Dwight
MacKenzie, Rachel
madness as theme in Bellow’s writing
Mailer, Norman
Malamud, Ann
Malamud, Bernard
Bellow discusses
Augie March
with
Bellow discusses
God’s Grace
Bellow on writers’ organizations
Bellow praises
Dubin’s Lives
Bellow praises
The Natural
Bellow’s eulogy of
Bellow’s Guggenheim recommendations for
Bellow’s opinion of
A New Life
Malraux, André
Manea, Norman
Mangan, John Joseph Sherry
Manheim, Mary
Markels, Bobby
marketing of Bellow’s writing
marriage
as business alliance
divorce from Alexandra
effect on friendships
quarrels with Anita Goshkin
thoughts on
Marshall, John
Martin, Jack
Marxism
Maschler, Tom
Mastroianni, Marcello
materialism
mature and perfected form of self
Maxwell, William
McCarthy, Mary
McCloskey, Herbert
discussions of jobs and writing
friendship with
mentioned
visits with
McCloskey, Mitzie
McCormick, John
McGehee, Ed
Meade, Marion
meaning in art
Medal of Freedom
meditation
megalomania
Memoirs of a Bootlegger’s Son
Mencken, H. L.
Merchant Marine
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
The Messiah of Stockholm
(Ozick)
metamorphosis, personal
Milano, Paolo
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Miller, Letizia Ciotti
Miller, Ruth
Mills, Margaret
mining deal in Africa
misery and human life
The Misfits
(movie)
misology
Mitchell, Stephen
Mitgang, Herbert
moderation
modernism
Moe, Henry Allen
money
divorce from Anita and
early book sales
enjoyment of
Ford Foundation grant
need for
settlement payment to Susan Glassman Bellow
writing for money
Monk, Sam
Monroe, Marilyn
Montreal
Moody Lectures
moral life
Morante, Elsa
More Die of Heartbreak
(Bellow)
Morris, Wright
Mosby’s Memoirs and Other Stories
(Bellow)
Mostel, Zero
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
“Mr. Green” (story)
Mr. Sammler’s Planet
(Bellow)
Murdoch, Iris
music
Nabokov, Nicolas
Naipaul, V. S.
Naked Lunch
(Burroughs)
National Book Award
The Natural
(Malamud)
natural-resource protection
naturalism in writing
Nature-intimacy
Nef, Evelyn
Nef, John U.
negative capability
Nelson, Benjamin