Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Christopher Hitchens considered The Adventures of Augie March to be in the running for the great American novel. So did Salman Rushdie. (Introduction and back cover to the Penguin Classics edition of the novel.)
TIME Magazine ranked Augie March among the 100 best novels. Nice. (Source.)
The novelist Vladimir Nabokov once alliteratively called Bellow "a miserable mediocrity." Sounds like someone could use a nap. (Source.)
Bellow was the recipient of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He was one acclaimed dude. (Source.)