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REVIEWS, ESSAYS, LECTURES & INTERVIEWS
"In Defense of Yetta"
The New York Review of Books, July 14, 2011
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"Philip Roth: I'm not caged in by reality"
Interview with Philip Roth
The Telegraph, May 20, 2011
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"Well-Written 'Letters': Saul Bellow Shows Us How"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
All Things Considered, March 15, 2011
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"Saul Bellow: Letters"
A Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Leah Garrett
The Sydney Morning Herald, February 19, 2011
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"Lasting Man"
A Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Cynthia Ozick
The New Republic, February 10, 2011
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"Writers' Letters: A Roundtable"
The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
January 28, 2011
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"Saul Bellow's Emotional Crucible"
Excerpted from Benjamin Taylor's introduction to Saul Bellow: Letters The National Post (Canada), January 20, 2011
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"Hurricane Man"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Michael O'Donnell
The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2011
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"The Real Thing: Saul Bellow Off the Record"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by David Galenson
The Huffington Post, January 10, 2011
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"Fine Jewish Whine"
Review of Saul Bellow Letters by Benjamin Balint
Ha'aretz, January 9, 2011
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"The Letters of Saul Bellow"
Review by Adam Kirsch
The Times Literary Supplement, December 29, 2010
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"Epistle Whip"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Geordie Williamson
The Australian, December 29, 2010
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"Book Review: Saul Bellow's Letters"
by Alan Cheuse
NPR's "All Things Considered,", December 27, 2010
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"Review of Saul Bellow: Letters"
by Richard Rayner
Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2010
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"Man of Letters"
Review by Jeremy Berlin
The American Scholar, Winter 2011
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"In un libro di lettere di Saul Bellow"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters
Il Foglio, December 18, 2010
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"A Conversation with Deborah Eisenberg"
Columbia University School of the Arts, December 16, 2010
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"The Year in Reading: Richard Brody"
Blogpost by Richard Brody
The New Yorker (digital edition), December 14, 2010
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"This Caring or Believing or Love Alone Matters"
Lecture at 92nd Street Y
December 5, 2010
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"Choosing the 10 Best Books of 2010"
The New York Times, December 1, 2010
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"The Whole Human Mess: On Saul Bellow"
Review by William Deresiewicz
The Nation, November 23, 2010
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"Michiko Kakutani's Top 10 Books of 2010"
The New York Times, November 23, 2010
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"Saul Bellow's Serious Fight Against Seriousness"
Review by Lee Siegel
The New York Observer, November 22, 2010
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"On Whom Nothing Was Lost"
Review by Leon Wieseltier
The New York Times Book Review, November 21, 2010
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"Saul Bellow: Letters"
Review by John Banville
The Guardian, November 20, 2010
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"Sosiego final de Saul Bellow"
Antonio Munoz Molina
El Pais, November 20, 2010
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"Mr. Bellow's Planet"
Interview with Eric Herschthal
The Jewish Week, November 16, 2010
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"Reading Saul Bellow's Letters"
Interview with Tom Ashbrook
NPR's On Point, November 15, 2010
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"Saul Bellow: Letters"
Review by Leo Robson
The New Statesman, November 11, 2010
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"Dispatches and Details from a Life in Literature"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Michiko Kakutani
The New York Times, November 8, 2010
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"Saul Bellow: Letters"
Review by Justin Cartwright
The Financial Times, November 8, 2010
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"An Epistolary Performer"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Gabriel Josipovici
The Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2010
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"Bellow in His Dream Car"
An Interview with Scott Sherman
Dissent Magazine, November 4, 2010
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"Pen Pal"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Jonathan Wilson
Tablet Magazine, November 2, 2010
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"A Profane Reliquary"
Review of Saul Bellow: Letters by Mark Cohen
The Forward, October 27, 2010
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"The Epistolary Adventures of Saul Bellow"
Interview with Evan R. Goldstein
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28, 2010
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"Goodbye Very Much: The Many Lives of Muriel Spark"
Review of Muriel Spark: The Biography by Martin Stannard
Harper's Magazine, May 2010
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"The Great American Novel in Miniature"
Review of The Book of Getting Even by David Goodwillie
The Rumpus.net, May 14th, 2009
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"Fiction as Fibbing"
Audio interview with Carlin M. Wragg
Open Loop Press, November 2008
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"Indignation Day"
Interview with Philip Roth about his novel Indignation
September 16, 2008
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"The Book of Getting Even by Benjamin Taylor"
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2008
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"Last Line"
Benjamin Taylor on The Book of Getting Even
Esquire, June 10, 2008
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"Books Briefly Noted: The Book of Getting Even"
Review of The Book of Getting Even
The New Yorker, June 9, 2008
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"Tribute to Philip Roth"
Tribute to Philip Roth on his 75th birthday
C-SPAN, April 11, 2008
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"Conscience of a Nation"
Review of Gunther Grass' Crabwalk
The New Leader, March/April 2003
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"The Things You Had Not Cared to Know"
Review of V.S. Naipaul's Half a Life
The New Leader, September 01, 2001
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"Prodigal Son"
Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS
edited by Edmund White
University of Wisconsin Press (2001)
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"Oppressed Memories"
A Review of Edward Said's Out of Place: A Memoir
Bookforum, Winter 1999
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"The Long Meander to Tales of My Own"
Talk delivered in Fort Worth, Texas
April 16, 1997
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"Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur"
Review
Los Angeles Times, March 25, 1986
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"A Centered Voice: Susan Sontag's Short Fiction"
Review of Susan Sontag's I, etcetera
The Georgia Review, Volume 34, Number 4 (Winter 1980)
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"Refusing to Refuse Perplexity: Keats and the Tragic"
New England Review, Volume 2, Number 3 (Spring 1980)
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LECTURES

Click below to download lectures given by
Benjamin Taylor at Columbia University School of the Arts

Fall 2009

               Alice Munro 1

               Munro 2

               Munro 2 cont.

               Saul Bellow 1

               Bellow 1 cont.

               Bellow 2

               Bellow 2 cont.

               John Cheever 1

               Cheever 1 cont.

               Cheever 2

               Cheever 2 cont.

    Cheever 3

    Cheever 3 cont.

    Flannery O'Connor

    O'Connor cont.

    O'Connor 2

    O'Connor 2 cont.

    Jean Stafford

    Stafford cont.

    Stafford 2

    Stafford 2 cont.

    Katherine Anne Porter

    Porter cont.
Fall 2010

               Leo Tolstoy

               Tolstoy cont.

               Anton Chekhov 1

               Chekhov 1 cont.

               Chekhov 2

               Chekhov 2 cont.

               Josef Conrad 1

               Conrad 2

               Conrad 2 cont.

               Edith Wharton 1

               Wharton 1 cont.

    Wharton 2

    Wharton 2 cont.

    Willa Cather

    Cather cont.

    Cather 2

    Cather 2 cont.

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Singer cont.

    Singer 2

    Singer 2 cont.
Fall 2011

       Introduction

       Nathaniel Hawthorne

       Herman Melville

       Melville cont.

       Henry James 1

       James 1 cont.

       James 2

       James 2 cont.

  Katherine Anne Porter 1

       Porter 1 cont.

       Porter 2

       Porter 2 cont.

    Ernest Hemingway

    Hemingway cont.

    William Faulkner

    Faulkner cont.

    Cheever

    Cheever cont.

    Cheever 2

    Cheever 2 cont.

    Jean Stafford

    Stafford cont.

    Stafford 2/Salinger

    Welty cont.

    Eudora Welty
Seminar on Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter
The New School, December 8, 2010

Part 1     Part 2
Interview with Philip Roth: Exit Ghost and Others
Columbia University School of the Arts, December 15, 2011

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AFFILIATIONS
Penguin Group, USA
Steerforth Press
The New School
The 92nd Street Y
PEN American Center
The Strothman Agency
Columbia University