Seize the Day Resources
Websites
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Short, sweet, and to the point—much like Seize the Day!
Movie or TV Productions
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Robin Williams stars as Wilhelm and Jerry Stiller plays Dr. Tamkin in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel.
Articles and Interviews
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In this short review, Alfred Kazin states memorably that the novel is about "the transparency of human weakness."
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To quote one of the funeral-goers who watches Wilhelm sob his heart out in Seize the Day: "Oh my, oh my! To be mourned like that." (7.104)
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In which James Wood writes that Seize the Day "is perhaps the most Russian novella ever written in America."
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Realism, anti-intellectualism, and human nature: Saul Bellow has thoughtful things to say about them all!
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In conversation with Sven Birkerts, Saul Bellow discusses the writing life, American fiction, and mass media in America today.
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Five years after Saul Bellow's death, Janis Bellow chats about life with the Nobel Laureate.
Video
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Saul Bellow describes his life as a young immigrant boy in Chicago in the 1920s.
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After reading from Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow fields questions from the crowd.
Audio
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Featuring a brief history of his writing life, and some choice quotes from the man himself.
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An excerpt of the lecture Saul Bellow delivered after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976.
Images
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The man knew how to rock the plaid.
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Less plaid, more laugh lines.
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The first edition of the book.
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For those who like to judge the plots of books by their covers.
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For those who like their symbolism more abstract.
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Robin Williams: lookin' sharp, and keepin' it cool.
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Help us out here, Shmoopers: are those mushrooms on his tie, or shrimp?