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David Mikics

David Mikics is the author of several books, including Bellow’s People (W. W. Norton)  and is the editor of The MAD Files (LOA). He writes for Tablet magazine and a professor of English at New College of Florida. 

Awe and Shmutz

Fall 2025

Awe and Shmutz

By: David Mikics

The greatest challenge for a Philip Roth biographer is that Roth was there first.

Tangled Truly

Spring 2023

Tangled Truly

By: David Mikics

Letters of ink. Letters of the heart.

Bellow, His Biographers, and the “Quivering Schmucks”

November 6, 2018

Bellow, His Biographers, and the “Quivering Schmucks”

By: David Mikics

Many authors have passionate readers, but few have drawn as many self-consciously nutty fans as Saul Bellow.

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