It gave us Oprah, Michael Jordan, Nobel Prize winning author Saul Bellow -- and the great University of Chicago.

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James Atlas salutes Saul Bellow's talent, but he has some doubts about the relentless mixture of concupiscence and creativity.

ECONOMIST: Non-fiction

The grimness is alleviated by absurdist humour, grotesque situations and snappy rejoinders reminiscent of Saul Bellow or, rather, Woody Allen.

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Chicago is no longer the Chicago of Saul Bellow.

FORBES: That Somber City No More

To be splattered and distorted across the ether by the great Dvorak ( "Microsoft, the government and Karlgaard") is rather like being the subject of a one-eyed Picasso portrait (as Saul Bellow might have put it).

FORBES: Dvorak is wrong

Strassler, a perfectionist, would periodically call his editor, Adam Bellow (son of Saul), and run down a list of dozens of items that needed discussing.

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