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Seize the Pen

In his essays on the writing life, Michael Greenberg emerges as figure out of Bellow
By Adam Kirsch | 7:00 AM Sep 22, 2009

For years, I have been reading Michael Greenberg’s remarkable column in the Times Literary Supplement and wondering what the English make of it. The New York Jewish quality of Greenberg’s take on the writer’s life, under the rubric “Freelance,” is emphasized by the way he takes turns writing the column with an English poet, Hugo ...